G.P. Li, Ph.D.
G.P. Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology & Director, Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility
University of California, Irvine
Speech Title: 
3D Heterogeneous Integrated Embedded System Technology Enabling
Abstract: 
While the silicon system-on-a-chip (SOC) has enabled mobile and landline information exchange platforms with a big success, many modes of sensing and actuation are still left out of the revolution, resistant so far to non-silicon microfabrication or to heterogeneous integration. Heterogeneous integration is referred to a process capable of integrating dissimilar materials, fabrications, devices, and interfaces to function as a single unit. 3D Heterogeneous integrated embedded systems (3D HID) are embedded microsystems capable of performing multiple functions for applications in biomedical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, communications, optical, health, and civil and environmental fields. In this talk, we will explore inorganic and organic materials for developing technologies enabling a 3D heterogeneous integrated embedded system that will be capable of detecting, analyzing, and communicating a still wider variety of stimuli. The technology for 3D HID will be a set of new designs, processes and materials that allow integration of many smart functional layers (laminates) each with patterning or structures unique to its functions. The laminate may still be used as a printed circuit board or packaging substrate, which offers the benefit of allowing pre-packaged electronics/sensors/actuators to be built without the need to increase package footprint area. It can enable and accommodate both existing nanomaterials that have not been applied in practice and proven macro technologies that have not yet been miniaturized. A variety of affordable, scalable, accessible, and portable (ASAP) system-in-package for IoT will also be presented.
Bio: 

G. P. Li (IEEE member since 1983) is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, with appointments in three departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as division director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and director of the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Li holds 26 U.S. patents with additional 15 patents pending, and has published more than 300 research papers involving microelectronic, optoelectronic technologies, microwave circuit design, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for communication, biomedical instrumentation and IOT applications, and bio-nano-IT technology. A member of numerous technical committees at professional conferences, Li was chair of the Taiwan VLSI Technology, Circuit, and System Conference in 2006. He also served as chair of the executive committee for electronics manufacturing research and new materials at the University of California. Li received an outstanding research contribution award from IBM (1987), two outstanding engineering professor awards from UCI (1997 and 2001), the UCI Innovators Award (2005), best paper award from the ITC International Telemetering Conference (2005), and outstanding Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Leaders and Role Models award by the Asian Business Association of Orange County (2009).