University of California Davis - Electrical & Comp. Engineering
Product Management Program
UC Berkeley Executive Education
PhD
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
MS
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
BE
Electrical Engineering
Google Joining With Pharma Company to Build its Smart Contact Lens
Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced that its eye care division
Alcon
will license Google's smart contact lens technology
creating a tool to monitor diabetics' blood sugar levels through tear samples. Alcon will collaborate with Google[x]
Google's secretive lab for major technological advances which also designed Google Glass.
Pharmaceutical company Novartis announced Tuesday that its eye care division
Alcon
will license Google's smart contact lens technology
creating a tool to monitor diabetics' blood sugar levels through tear samples. Alcon will collaborate with Google[x]
Google's secretive lab for major technological advances which also designed Google Glass.
Google and GSK form venture to develop bioelectronic medicines
GlaxoSmithKline has teamed up with Google's parent company Alphabet to develop miniature electronic implants for the treatment of asthma
diabetes and other chronic conditions. GSK
Britain's biggest drug company
said it would form a joint venture with Verily Life Sciences
a division of Alphabet
to work on research into bioelectronic medicines.
Google and GSK form venture to develop bioelectronic medicines
Integrated Circuit Design
Analog Circuit Design
Low-power Design
Sensors
IC
Analog
Simulations
Signal Processing
R&D
O'Driscoll
Stephen
O'Driscoll
Stanford University
Verily (aka Google Life Sciences)
Cypress Semiconductor
UC Davis
IEEE
Farran Technology
Mountain View
CA
- Glucose Sensing Contact Lens (primarily 2012-mid 2014)\n -- NY Times Coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/business/international/novartis-joins-with-google-to-develop-contact-lens-to-monitor-blood-sugar.html?_r=0 \n -- RF Lead: Antennas
RF IC and Analog IC Design\n -- Team Lead for Reader sub-project - leading interdisciplinary team: UX
Industrial Design
Materials
PCB design
Firmware
Wireless\n\n- New Device Initiation (primarily early 2014 to now)\n -- Identify device product opportunities which can radically improve health outcomes\n -- Explore technology edge and market opportunities\n -- Lead multi-disciplinary teams (IC
PCB
firmware
antenna
microfabrication
sensors
chemistry
user-experience and industrial design) to develop prototype devices and conduct early trials using those devices\n -- Initiate and develop partnerships with key stakeholders in the field\n -- One of those projects is now public: Peripheral Nervous Stimulation (PNS) \n --- Initiated PNS project & built initial team\n --- Led R&D to devise solutions to key technological barriers\n --- Project has become a GlaxoSmithKline and Alphabet joint venture named Galvani \n --- UK Guardian Story: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/01/google-gsk-bioelectronic-medicines-verily-life-sciences-alphabet \n\n- Lead RF Team completing RF design and realization for all Verily projects \n\nThis work started as part of Google[x]
and has since spun out as Google Life Sciences which is now renamed as Verily
an Alphabet company
Engineering Manager
Verily (aka Google Life Sciences)
Sample Papers: \n- \"A mm-Sized Implantable Power Receiver with Adaptive Link Compensation\"
S. O'Driscoll
A. S. Y. Poon
T. H. Meng
IEEE ISSCC 2009\n- \"Neurons to Silicon: Implantable Prosthesis Processor\"
S. O'Driscoll
T. H. Meng
K. V. Shenoy
and C. Kemere
IEEE ISSCC 2006.\n- \"Adaptive Resolution ADC Array for Neural Implant\"
S. O'Driscoll
T. H. Meng
IEEE EMBC 2009\n- \"Optimal Operating Frequency in Wireless Power Transmission for Implantable Devices\"
A. Poon
S. O'Driscoll
T. H. Meng
IEEE EMBC 2007
Stanford University
Student Microwave Design Engineer
Summer experience while studying for bachelor's degree.
Farran Technology
Assistant Professor
Full-Time Aug 2009 to Mar 2012\nOn-leave
financing and advising remaining graduate students Apr 2012 to Jun 2016 when final student graudated\n\nResearching analog integrated circuits with particular emphasis on low power techniques and biomedical interfaces.\n\nSample papers:\n- \"Fundamental sensing limit of electrochemical glucose sensors\"
K. Louchis
S. O'Driscoll
IEEE EMBC 2011\n- \"Implant positioning system using mutual inductance\"
Y. Zou
S. O'Driscoll
IEEE EMBC 2012\n- \"Match Enhancement in SAR ADCs by Algorithmic Unit Capacitor Assignment\"
N. Martin
S. O'Driscoll IEEE ISCAS 2014\n- \"Adaptive signal acquisition and wireless power transfer for an implantable prosthesis processor\"
\nS. O'Driscoll
T.H. Meng
IEEE ISCAS 2010\n- \"Optimal Frequency for Wireless Power Transmission Into Dispersive Tissue\"
A. Poon
S. O'Driscoll
T.H. Meng
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 2010
UC Davis
Analog IC Design Engineer
Cypress Semiconductor
IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Associate Editor