Kensall D. Wise received the
BSEE degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1963, and the MS and
PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
in 1964 and 1969, respectively.
From 1963 to 1965 and from 1972 to 1974 he was a Member of Technical
Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
In 1974 he joined the University of Michigan, where he is now the
William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, the J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of
Manufac-turing Technology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Professor
of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences. He is the 2007 Henry Russel Lectureship at the University of
Michigan, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AIMBE, and a member of the
United States National Academy of Engineering. He is also serving the Department as the Director of the NSF
Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems, Director of
the Robert H. Lurie
Nanofabrication Facility, and Director of the Solid-State Electronics
Laboratory.
Research Interests:
Integrated circuits and related process technology, integrated solid-state
sensors
Research Areas: MEMS and
Microsystems; Integrated Circuit Design and VLSI.
Areas of Specialty: VLSI and
Digital Circuits; RF MEMS; Implantable Devices; Environmental Sensors; Circuits
for MEMS and Microsystems.
Selected Projects: A Wireless
Implantable Microsystem for Multi-Channel Neural Recording; A Low-Volume,
Low-Power Preconcentration and Gas Separation System; A 3-D Dual-Platform
Mapping System for Neural Code Studies; A High-Density Cochlear Electrode Array
with Programmable Current Shaping; A Wireless Sub-Microwatt Intraocular
Pressure Sensor; Front-End Engineering of Neural Recording Microsystems for
Neuroscience and Neural Prostheses; A Position-Sensing and Control System for
Cochlear Prosthesis; New Electrode Technology for the Central and Peripheral
Nervous System; A Chronic Drug-Delivery Probe with Integrated Microvalves.
