Engineer Engineering

Erin G. Fong

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

University of California, Davis

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One Shields Avenue

Davis, CA 95616 USA

Low power electronics, mixed signal circuits, energy harvesting, power electronics, and

Research

biomedical applications.

Interests

The University California, Davis, Davis, CA

Education

Ph.D., Electrial Engineering, degree expected 2014 GPA: 3.8

Thesis Proposal: Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting for a Biomedical Implant

Advisor: Professor Rajeevan Amirtharajah

Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology

B.S., Electrical Engineering, June 2007 GPA: 3.2

The University of California, Davis Davis, CA

Research

Experience

January 2008 - present

Micropower Circuits and Systems Group

Working with Texas Instruments in the design and fabrication of a photovoltaic

energy harvesting system with maximum power point tracking.

Characterized integrated photodiodes as a power source and modeled them in

Cadence.

Developed e ciency calculator in MATLAB GUI with user de ned light source,

medium (i.e., tissue, air) and semiconductor bandgap utilizing Beer s Law and

the the Detailed Balance Limit (Monte Carlo simulations).

Designed experiment to measure ballistic photons through chicken tissue to verify

above model.

Quantifying the comparison between Inductive coupling and Photovoltaics in the

subdermal implant application.

Investigating photovoltaics use in stimulating cardiomyocyte tissue engineered

constructs.

US Department of Education GAANN Fellowship recipient.

June 2006 - June 2007

Integrated Nanodevices and Systems Research Group

Investigated the quantum electron transport properties of nanowires along with

contact resistance.

Generated graphs to analyze the relationship between cross section area and

resistance of Si NWs.

The University of California, Davis Davis, CA

Teaching

Experience

September 2010 - present

Teaching Assistant

(Prepared, helped with, and graded labs; Graded midterms and Finals)

Led labs in EEC 180A: Digital Systems I, EEC 118: Digital Integrated Circuits,

and EEC 119A-B: Integrated Circuit Design Project

Quartus II, breadboards, components, power supplies, function generators, and

oscilloscopes.

Cadence Tools, simulations, standard cells, and layout of adders; and mentoring

groups in their design of a pixel imager array system.

Grader for ENG 6: Engineering Problem Solving (MATLAB).

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2010 - present

Mentor

Global Research in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program

Mentored/Advised Chinese foreign exchange students Fall 2011 and Winter 2012

on energy harvesting. One student investigated thermal gradient energy harvesters

for hearing aids; the other is creating a model in order to compare the e cacy of

inductive coupling vs. photovoltaics for biomedical implants based on frequency,

tissue, and separation.

WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), Women s Resource Center

Mentored Undegraduate Student on her courses and student life.

Silexos, Inc. Menlo Park, CA

Work

Experience

June - December 2010

Process Engineer Intern

Helped develop the lm deposition process of the solar cell lms, tested and

characterized solar cells, modeled and simulated solar cells and strings in HSPICE,

and trouble shot and worked on random projects within the startup.

Erin G. Fong, Nathaniel J. Guilar, Travis Kleeburg, Hai Pham, Diego R. Yankelevich,

Publications

and Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Integrated Energy Harvesting Photodiodes with Di ractive

Storage Capacitance, to be published in Trans. Very Large Scale Integration.

Nathaniel J. Guilar, Erin G. Fong, Travis Kleeburg, Diego R. Yankelevich, and

Rajeevan Amirtharajah, EnergyHarvesting Photodiodes with Integrated 2D Di ractive

Storage Capacitance, International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design

2008, pp. 63-68.

A. Choudhry, Vishwanath Ramamurthi, Erin Fong, and M. Saif Islam, Ultra-low

Contact Resistance of Expitaxially Interfaced Si Nanowires, Nano Letters, vol. 7, pp.

1536-1541, 2007.

Travis Kleeburg, Je rey Loo, Nathaniel J. Guilar, Erin Fong, and Rajeevan Amirtharajah,

Ultra-Low-Voltage Circuits for Sensor Applications Powered by Free-Space Optics,

International Solid-State Circuits Conference 2010, pp. 502-503.

Skills A

MATLAB, Python, L TEX, and C.

Visio, Simulink, HSPICE, Cadence Tools, Virtuoso ADE, Spectre, Calibre, Encounter.

Function generators, Oscilloscopes, and power meters.

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