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About the Authors
Rikky Muller (rikky@berkeley.edu)
is an assistant professor of electrical
engineering and computer science at
the University of California, Berkeley,
Berkely, California, 94720, USA, where
she holds the S. Shankar Sastry Professorship
in Emerging Technologies. She
is a codirector of the Berkeley Wireless
Research Center, a core member of
the Center for Neural Engineering and
Prostheses, and an investigator at the
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub. She received
her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and her Ph.D. from the University
of California, Berkeley. She was
the cofounder of Cortera Neurotechnologies
and an IC designer at Analog
Devices. She is the recipient of numerous
fellowships and awards, including
the 2021 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
New Frontier Award.
Mohammad Meraj Ghanbari
(ghanbari@berkeley.edu) is pursuing
his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
and computer sciences at the University
of California, Berkeley, Berkely,
California, 94720, USA. His research
interests include analog and mixed-signal
ICs, energy harvesting, sensor interfaces,
biosensing, and neural recording.
He is a Student Member of IEEE.
Andy Zhou (andyz@berkeley.edu)
received his B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from the California
Institute of Technology in 2015. He is
a Ph.D. candidate at the University of
California, Berkeley, Berkely, California,
94720, USA. His research interests
include intelligent neural interfaces
and hyperdimensional computing for
continuous learning in wearable and
implantable devices. He is a recipient
of the National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship and a
Student Member of IEEE.
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