Asif Iftekhar Omi, an ECE Ph.D. student working with Dr. Baibhab Chatterjee, has been selected to receive the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, among the most prestigious of accolades in microwave engineering. The fellowship recognizes contributions which have the potential to reshape the future of healthcare technology, particularly in areas where microwave techniques play a pivotal role. Iftekhar Omi, who prefers to be known as Asif, is one of only two graduate students worldwide to receive the fellowship this year.
Asif received the fellowship in support of his research on Galvanic Body-Coupled Powering (GBCP) for implantable medical devices. His work addresses one of the most critical challenges in the biomedical circuits and systems community: the efficient and reliable powering of miniaturized medical implants.