Edwin Chihchuan Kan

Biography

Professor Edwin Kan received B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and 1992, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He has served in the Air Force, Taiwan, R. O. China as a second lieutenant from 1984 – 1986. In January 1992, he joined Dawn Technologies as a Principal CAD Engineer. He was then with Stanford University as a Research Associate from 1994 to 1997, performing research on technology CAD and numerical methods. In 1997, he joined School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY as an assistant professor, where he is now a professor.  He was working on CMOS technology and circuits, in particular for nonvolatile memories.  His research interests shifted to RF biosensors and senior care after 2014.

Research Interests

1. Near-field radio frequency (RF) sensing applied to monitoring of vital signs, muscle activities, and tissue vibration.  human and animal vital sign extraction. Near-field RF sensing employs RF antennas or leaky transmission lines placed in the near-field region of dielectric boundary motion to achieve high sensitivity and temporal resolution sensing of motion within the region. The sensor does not need body contact, and can retrieve the motion of internal organs and tissues in a non-invasive or covert manner.
2. RFID technologies applied to precision passive RFID tag tracking, tag-less imaging, and camera-less occupant counting. Signal-processing methods and machine-learning based algorithms are extensively applied to both the biosensors and RFID-based 3D localization and imaging.

• Sensors and Actuators
• Nanobio Applications
• Nanotechnology
• Semiconductor Physics and Devices
• Bioengineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Bio-Electrical Engineering
• Solid State, Electronics, Optoelectronics and MEMs
• Integrated Circuits
• Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
• Circuits and Electronic Systems