Wearable Devices. On body Wireless Communications
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Wearable antennas and sensors can potentially find broad usage in medical applications including physiological parameters tracking, patients real-time vital signs monitoring, control of patients drug dose, etc. The major challenge in this type of applications is the need for low-cost devices that can be easily integrated in different environments. Apart from designing the device, other issues to solve are body and device interference, transmission and reception characteristics, network integration. Such devices can be also integrated into Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) that would enable medical computing environment to receive securely and timely patients medical data. So-called Wireless Body Area Networks are based on low power devices operating on or around the human body to serve a variety of medical applications. Indeed research effort into this area is intense and multiple exciting applications have been proposed lately.
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Stavros Koulouridis
Lecturer - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Rio, Greece
Short Bio
He received the Diploma Engineer in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. degrees in Microwave engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 1999 to 2003 he worked as Research Engineer in Microwave and Fiber Optics Lab and Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Unit, National Technical University of Athens. He taught several classes in the School of Pedagogic and Technological Education (ASPAITE) from 2000 to 2003. He was also teaching assistant from 2000 to 2002 in National Technical University of Athens. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Electroscience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Since March 2009 he holds a lecturer position in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece where he leads the Microwave Communications group. His research interests include Antenna and Microwave Devices Design, Development and Fabrication of Novel Materials, Microwave Applications in Medicine, Electromagnetic Optimization Techniques, Applied Computational Electromagnetics. He was the recipient of a three year PhD Scholarship on Biomedical Engineering from Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation in 2001. In May 2005 his PdD thesis, entitled 'Study of the Interaction between Biological Tissues and Near Field Microwave Sources,' received the annual award for the best dissertation in National Technical University of Athens. He is member of the Technical Program Committee of Antennas and Propagation Society symposium. He is serving as a reviewer in several journals including IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, IEEE Antennas & Wireless Propagation Letters and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation . Dr. Koulouridis is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
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