Dr Shiwei Wang

Reader in Integrated Neuro-Electronics

Email: 

swang116@ed.ac.uk

Location: 

1.24A Murchison House

Social Media: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiweiwanga7739426/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YW0It88AAAAJ&hl=en

Engineering Discipline: 

  • Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Research Institute: 

  • Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

Biography: 

Dr Shiwei Wang received his Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering (Outstanding Honor) from Zhejiang University, China in 2010 and PhD degree in Microelectronics from University of Edinburgh, UK in 2014. Following his PhD research, he was with SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China as a Research Assistant Professor working on integrated circuits for neural implants. He was with IMEC, Belgium from 2015 to 2020 where his research has led to innovative breakthroughs in high density neural probe and integrated brain machine interface technologies. He was an Associate Professor at University of Southampton from 2020 to 2022, and is now a Reader at the Centre for Electronics Frontiers, University of Edinburgh.

Academic Qualifications: 

  • PhD
  • BEng

Professional Qualifications and Memberships: 

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Fellow, HEA

Research Interests: 

Integrated circuits for neurotechnologies, AI, biomedical, implantables/wearables, brain machine interface, sensor instrumentation, etc. 

Specialities: 

Analogue and mixed-signal integrated circuits