Virgilio Valente

Assistant Professor

Virgilio Valente received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from University College London (UCL), U.K., in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020 he held postdoctoral and Faculty positions at UCL, UK, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2015, he also joined Tetrivis LTD, UK, as an IC design engineer. In 2017, Virgilio was a Visiting Scholar in the Nano Lab at Tufts University, Medford, USA.

Dr. Valente’s research focuses on the design of integrated sensor systems for insertable and injectable wireless biosensor networks, with medical applications including wireless health monitoring, diagnostics and closed-loop therapy.

Dr. Valente is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE BioCAS Technical Committee and a member of the IEEE ICECS Technical Program Committee. In 2019 he served as Track Chair at the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Bangkok, Thailand.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Analog and mixed-signal ICs
• Bioelectronics
• Wireless biosensors
• Biotelemetry
• Bio-MEMS

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

• IEEE Senior Membership, 2020
• EPSRC i-sense Mobility Fellowship, 2016
• UCL Cullen Prize, Best Poster Award, 2008

SELECTED PAPERS

• Liu, Y., Urso, A., Martins Da Ponte, R., Costa, T., Valente, V., Giagka, V., Serdijn, W.A., Constandinou, T.G., Denison, T. Bidirectional Bioelectronic Interfaces: System Design and Circuit Implications. IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 30-46. Spring 2020, doi: 10.1109/MSSC.2020.2987506
• V. Valente, N. Neshatvar, E. Pilavaki, M. Schormans and A. Demosthenous. 1.2-V Energy-Efficient Wireless CMOS Potentiostat for Amperometric Measurements. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 1700-1704. Oct. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2944258
• M. Schormans, D. Jiang, V. Valente and A. Demosthenous. Short-Range Quality-Factor Modulation (SQuirM) for Low Power High Speed Inductive Data Transfer. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 3254-3265. Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TCSI.2019.2922124
• M. Schormans, V. Valente and A. Demosthenous. Practical Inductive Link Design for Biomedical Wireless Power Transfer: A Tutorial. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1112-1130. Oct. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2846020
• V. Valente, C. Eder, N. Donaldson and A. Demosthenous. A High-Power CMOS Class-D Amplifier for Inductive-Link Medical Transmitters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 30, no. 8, pp. 4477-4488. Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2353214