Dr. Emm. Mic. Drakakis is an academic member of staff of the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, where he joined in October 2001. Dr. Drakakis has studied Physics (4-year degree) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT) - Macedonia - Hellas, Electronic Physics and Radioelectrology (2.5-year MPhil degree) at the same university, and earned his PhD in Analog IC design under the supervision of Dr. Alison Payne from the Department of EEE-Imperial in May 2000 where he also conducted EPSRC-sponsored post-doctoral research. In the Department of Bioengineering, Dr. Drakakis has founded the Bioinspired VLSI Circuits and Systems Group whose research activities revolve around two axes: a) "Circuits for Biology" (inspiration drawn by the need for innovative instrumentation as dictated by a specific biological problem or application) and b) "Circuits from Biology" (inspiration drawn by operational, architectural and/or anatomical characteristics encountered in natural information processing systems). Currently the group consists of two RAs and eleven PhD students. Dr. Drakakis has received: the West-Macedonian Award "Alexander the Great"(1986) for being fourth (4th) in Greece in the General Entry Examinations; during his UG years he received performance scholarships from the (Hellenic) Foundation of State Scholarships (IKY); during his two-year long military service at the Hellenic Army's Research & Technology Center he was awarded a Prize with Public Praise (1995) whereas between 1996-1998 he was sponsored by the Micro-Electronics Research Center (MERC) of LM Ericsson -Kista -Stockholm (one of eight in the world at the time) and the Vardinoyiannis Foundation. In 2006 he received the Rector's Award for Excellence in Research at Imperial. His group have received a Live Demo Special Session Prize (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, 2007) and a Finalist Award (IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cincinnati, 2005). Dr.Drakakis (MIEEE) is a member of the BIOCAS and CNNA IEEE Technical Committees, is past Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I, past Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II, past Guest Assistant Editor for IEE Electronics Letters and past Subject Editor for the International Journal of Electronics - Taylor & Francis. Currently he acts as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He has acted as triple Track Chair for the IEEE BIOCAS 2006.
Research Interests
Microprobes for Medicine & Biology
Spatiotemporal Physicochemical Monitoring of (Stem) Cell Cultures
Bionic Ear and Cochlear Implant Processors
Memristors
Ultra Low power Cytomimetic Circuits
Vision Processors - Cellular Nonlinear/Neural Networks
Optolelectronic Chips for Retinal Stimulation
Log-domain Ultra Low Power VLSI processing for biomedical applications
Hyperbolic-sine Ultra Low Power Ultra High Dynamic Range VLSI Processing for Biomedical Applications
Ultra Low Power (Bio)Sensor Interfacing Techniques
Short-range RF links
Biomimetic Si-Neurons & Synapses
Pulse Oximetry
Indicative Bio Circuits & Systems
Conceived, Designed & Fabricated by the Group
Log-Domain Cochlear Implant Processor
Integrated Pulse Oximetry Front-End
8 x16 Ampero/Potentio-metric Channel
Stem Cell Culture Monitoring Instrument
TDCNN Vision Chip Testing by Dr.Ip
Smart Pixel Array for the Optical
Excitation of Photosensitised Neurons
Typical Memristor I-V
