Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Utah

Research area: Integrated circuits design for MEMS-based wireless microsystems for applications including implantable and wearable biomedical sensing, industrial sensing, personal navigation, and environmental monitoring.

Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Utah

Ross Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah. He received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Arizona in 2005. In 2007, he received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Prof. Walker graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2013, at which time he joined the University of Utah. From 2003-2004 he held positions at IBM and National Semiconductor, both in Tucson, AZ. In 2006 he held a position at Linear Technology, Milpitas, CA. His research interests include mixed signal integrated circuit design with an emphasis on sensor interfacing, biomedical applications, and applied signal processing. Prof. Walker has made contributions to biomedical imaging systems, direct neural interfaces, quantum biomolecular transducers, and other sensor applications.

Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Utah

Armin Tajalli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah. He has 15+ years industrial experience in the field of high-performance integrated computing and communication systems. He has been the system architect and the design lead of industry's one of the lowest consumption chip-to-chip links, managed a team of 20+ over four design sites. His main focus is on advanced calibration and training schemes, modern signaling and communication techniques, as well as circuits and architectures. He has published 80+ articles, and holds 30+ patents. He has received several awards, including The Best Paper Award in DesignCon (2016), PhD Prime Award at EPFL, Switzerland (2010), and IEEE AMD/CICC Scholarship (2009).