Hosted Session: MSIG

Wednesday, February 17 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Online, Central European Time (CET)

Hosted by

Clearing the Air, Environmental Sensors and their Role on Reducing the Impact of Pollution

MEMS and sensors are at the heart of the top megatrends the entire electronics industry will experience in the next 10 years. These trends will have a big impact on many sectors including environment, industrial automation, autonomous driving, health and wellness. Each of these sectors faces a unique set of challenges that hinder progress and require industry-wide collaboration.

The MEMS & Sensors Industry Group is a leading group who enable this collaboration and information sharing to help ease the adoption of MEMS and sensors one sector at a time.

In this session, we will have an open discussion on topics related to environmental sensors:

What gases need to be monitored to improve human well-beings?
What are the key performance limitation that prevent mass market adoption?
What challenges system integrators face to combine multiple gas sensors into their end solution?

Featured Speakers

Carmelo Sansone

Director of MEMS and Sensors Industry Group SEMI

Radislav Potyrailo

Principal Scientist General Electric

Radislav is a Principal Scientist at GE Research. He has an Optoelectronics degree from Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1985) and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University (1998). At GE Radislav has been directing numerous programs in the areas of design and excitation of physical transducers, materials with multi-response mechanisms to ambient environments, univariate and multivariate data analytics, and system engineering of microanalytical instrumentation. His focus is to bring innovative sensing systems with previously unavailable performance capabilities from laboratory feasibility studies to field validation and to commercialization. Radislav has been serving as a Principal Investigator on US Government programs funded by AFRL, DARPA, DHS, NETL, NIH, NIOSH, and TSWG. Some of the results Radislav summarized in 130 granted US Patents and 150+ publications on transducer technologies, sensing materials, and data analytics describing sensing concepts and their implementations. Radislav is the initiator and a co-organizer of the First Gordon Research Conference on Combinatorial and High Throughput Materials Science. He serves as an editor of the Springer book series Integrated Analytical Systems, he is the North America Regional Chair of International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing and Chair of the Device Working Group of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group. His recent recognitions include SPIE Fellow for achievements in fundamental breakthroughs in optical sensing and analytical systems and Prism Award by Photonics Media/SPIE.

Sreeni Rao

Senior Director TDK

Dr. Sreeni Rao is a Senior Director at TDK responsible for TDK Corp's Gas and Environmental Sensing products and business. He has been in the MEMS sensing and semiconductor sector for the last 25 years, and has previously held technical and business leadership positions at Texas Instruments, IBM, Analog Devices, and Qualtre, Inc. He has a PhD in EE from University of California, Irvine and an MBA from Northeastern University.