Location Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
Dr. Khalil Najafi, ISS Co-Founder, ISS Board of Directors. A leader in MEMS research, Dr. Khalil Najafi is Director of the Solid State Electronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as the Deputy Director of the Center for Wireless MEMS Engineering Research Center, a National Science Foundation Engineering
Research Center at the University of Michigan Engineering School. Dr. Najafi is a MEMS Senior Editor of IEEE and the Journal of Micro-mechanics and Micro-engineering. He is the author of four patents, four book chapters, forty-three journal publications and over 100 conference papers. He has managed over $10 million in projects and graduated eleven PhDs. Dr. Najafi’s expertise is in solid-state integrated sensors and circuits, analog and mixed mode integrated circuit design and fabrication, fabrication technologies for silicon micro-actuators and three-dimensional micromechanical systems, integrated implantable sensors for biomedical applications, packaging techniques for protection of integrated circuits and sensors for long-term implantation in biological environments, miniature implantable wireless micro-telemetry systems. Dr. Najafi has Ph.D., M.S., and B.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.
