Overview
Esther Rodriguez-Villegas leads a multi-disciplinary team of thirteen Post Doctoral researchers and PhD students. The expertise in the group includes high performance analogue circuit design, biomedical signal processing, electronic circuit packaging, and high performance PCB design.
Her most recent research interests are focused on wearable sensors for breathing and cardiac monitoring and low-power electronics for the online processing of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Esther Rodgriguez-Villegas' EEG research is now receiving funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no. 239749. She is part of the Commodity-12 consortium for continious monitoring of type 1 and 2 diabetes and has been awarded the CrackIT Challenge in 2012 which is run by the National Centre for Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement of Animals in Reseearch and is sponsored by Eli Lilly.
Student Prizes
Alex Casson -- Eryl Cadwaladr Davies prize for best doctoral thesis in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2010)
Feng Y. Chan -- Nujira Prize for best final year analogue electronics project (2010)
P. Mirtorabi -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2008)
K. Choonee -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2007)
S. Patel -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2006)
I. I. Alam -- Usmani Prize in microelectronics (2005)
P. G. Corbishley -- Governora??s Prize and Usmani Prize in microelectronics, 2003. His final year project was judged by the IEE as one of the top three in the UKa?? in the SET Awards.
PhD Supervision
Current PhD students
Zhou Jiang
Sorsby (Guangwei) Chen
Anas Imtiaz
Majd Eid
Saam Iranmanesh
Ruchir Saraswat
Mohammad Us aid Abbasi
Mohan Rajagopal
Past students
Lojini Logesparan -- Data reduction algorithms to enable long-term monitoring from low-power miniaturised wireless EEG systems, (2013)
Amir Abdulghani -- Compressive sensing theory for low-power wireless EEG communication systems, (2011)
John Richard Hizon -- Reconfigurable CMOS OATs for filters in multi-standard receivers, (2011)
Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez -- Real-time algorithms for acoustic heart rate detection and respiratory rate extraction for use in miniature wearable breathing and heart monitor, (2011)
Alex Casson -- A data reduction algorithm incorporating a low-power continuous wavelet transform for use in wearable EEG systems, (2010)
Min Xu -- Pushing the limit of CMOS in analogue to digital conversion using floating gate MOS transistors, (2008)
Phil Corbishley -- Ultra low power circuits for a miniature apnoea detection device (2007)
Patents
- Rodriguez-Villegas E, Chen G, et al. 2012, Feature characterization for breathing monitor, WO/2012/007719A1
- Rodriguez-Villegas E, Duncan JS, Corbishley P, et al. 2007, A method and apparatus for monitoring respiratory activity, WO/2007/099314
- Rodriguez-Villegas E, Yates D 2008, Apparatus and method for obtaining EEG data, WO/2008/015449
- Rodriguez-Villegas E, Corbishley P, Sample and hold circuits, WO/2006/035230
Collaborators
John Huxter and his team, Eli Lilly, Neurophysiology, 2012
Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway University of London, 2011
Juan Ruiz, Hôpital de Riviera, 2011
Olivier Marchesini, Portavita, Body Sensor NEtworks for monitoring of epilepsy patients, 2011
Stefan Schraps, Bodytel, Body sensor technologies for monitoring of epilepsy patients, 2011
Przemyslaw Kardas, Lodz University, Body Sensors for monitoring of diabetes patients, 2011
Michael Ignaz Schumacher, EPFL, Body sensors for monitoring of diabetes patients, 2011
John S. DuncanJeremy Raddcliffe, UCL (Institute of Neurology), Epilepsy and apnoea, 2004
Prof. Ramon Gonzalez-Carvajal, University of Seville, Low power circuit design, 2002
Guest Lectures
Wearable technologies for remote diagnosis of respiratory related conditions, Royal Society of Medicine, London (UK), 2016
Acupebble: a novel wearable technology for self-diagnosis of respiratory diseases, 3Cs, 2016
Low Power Electronics in Wearable Technologies, Huawei, 2016
Acupebble: A new wearable technology for self-diagnosis of respiratory problems, Launch Festival, San Francisco, 2016
Wearable technologies for remote diagnosis of respiratory conditions, Sensors in Medicine Conference, London (UK), 2016
The future of wearable technologies, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, 2015
Wearable technologies in 2035, IC Technology Foresight Event, London (UK), 2015
Interfacing Circuits with Biology Plenary Talk, IEEE CMOS Emerging Technologies, Vancouver (Canada), 2015
Low Power in Wearable Technologies, McLaren, UK, 2015
Plenary demonstration of activities in the Wearable Technologies Lab, IC Women in Science and Engineering, 2015
A Future of Wearable Health Technology: Is this emerging technology investable, and what are the expectations of investors?, IC Business School, London, 2015
Wearable Technologies for Epilepsy Diagnosis and Monitoring, Plenary invited talk at IEEE uHealthcare Conference, Gyengju, Korea, 2012
Challenges to be solved in a 1.5g EEG monitoring system for mice, NC3Rs. Wellcome Trust, London (UK), 2012
What does the next generation of researchers and innovators need from research institutions and policy makers?, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg (France), 2011
How can electronic devices improve epilepsy diagnosis and care?, Plenary talk to neurologist/neurosurgeons specializing on epilepsy. Organized by UCB Pharma, Headquarters Brussels. Talked took place Tylney Hall (UK), 2010
From Sanlucar to microchips that interpret the brain, Instituto de Bachillerato Elcano (Secondary school), Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz). Spain, 2010
De Sanlucar a microchips que interpretan el cerebro, El Ateneo (Cultural Organization in Spain), Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz). Spain, 2010
Electronic and medical challenges on truly wearable detection of breathing, Invited plenary talk as part of IEEE Comunication, Medical, Optoelectronics, Semiconductors Emerging Technologies Workshop, Banff (Canada), 2009
Truly wearable electroencephalography: why, how, when?, Essex University, 2008
The future of EEG technology, National Society for Epilepsy, Chalfont (UK), 2008
Research challenges on breathing detection and EEG technology focused on the needs of epilepsy patients, GE Healthcare, Helsinki (Findland), 2008
Research Staff
Bowyer,S
Chen,G
Mardell,J
Raikos,G
Saremi-Yarahmadi,S
Syed,AI
Yates,D
Research Student Supervision
Ming,X, Measuring pulse oximetry in unconventional body locations