Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab

8/1/2024: Dr. Kim is tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at University of South Florida

5/1/2024: Drs. Kim and Yang have received the Florida Cancer Innovation Award. We thank the Florida Department of Health for supporting our research. We are excited to develop a cisplatin-generating microdevice for glioblastoma treatment.

1/21/2024 - 1/25/2024: Congratulations to Sophia and Trisha on their acceptance to the MEMS 2024 Conference at Austin, TX

10/10/2023: The AK lab attended the BMES 2023 conference and collectively presented 7 research projects (2 oral and 5 posters)

07/21/2023: A journal paper titled "Protein Redox by Piezoelectric Acousto-Nanodevice" is published in the Nanoscale! [Link]

05/31/2023: A journal paper titled "Omni-Directional Ultrasonic Powering via Platonic Solid Receiver for mm-Scale Implantable Devices" is published in the ACS Materials Letters! Thanks to the co-authors. [Link] 

4/14/2023: Prof. Albert Kim was invited as a Keynote speaker at the DCAS 2023, where he talked about his research on Acousto-Bioelectronics. For more details: https://www.dcas2023.com/invited-speakers.html

4/1/2023: A journal paper titled “Totally Implantable Oxygen Generator (TIOG) for Hypoxia and Hypoxemia” is featured in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME) [Link] and made it to the Front Cover (TBME, April 2023 issue).

10/14/2022: A journal paper titled "Totally Implantable Oxygen Generator (TIOG) for Hypoxia and Hypoxemia" is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). 

6/7/2022: Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab moved to the University of South Florida (USF)

6/5/2022 - 6/9/2022: Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab members (Sayemul and Rebecca) participated and presented their works at 2022 Hilton Head Workshop. Congrats!

6/1/2022: A journal paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Coupling Method for Intra-Body Network (IBNet)” is featured in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME). Link

4/12/2022: Dr. Kim has received the NSF CAREER award. We thank the NSF for supporting our research. We are excited to develop Acousto-Bioelectronics for cancer therapy.

11/16/2021: A journal paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Coupling Method for Intra-Body Network (IBNet)” is accepted in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME).

8/9/2021: Dr. Kim and Dr. Jungkwun Kim at Kansas State University have received a new grant from the NSF ECCS program. We thank the NSF for supporting our research. We are excited to develop a microneedle-mediated wound healing patch.

8/5/2021: Sumnoon Ahmed joined the Acousto-Bioelectronic Lab. Welcome!

8/4/2021: Dr. Kim and Dr. Krishina Kant have received a new grant from the NSF CISE program. We thank the NSF for supporting our research. We are excited to investigate a reconfigurable intrabody network for medical devices.

7/2021: Our Smart Dental Implant project (with Dr. Hwang at UPenn) has been selected as a finalist for the 14th round of the Science Center research accelerator (QED Proof-of-Concept program). Congratulations!

7/22/2021: Dr. Kim co-authored a journal paper, "A bio-inspired optical directional microphone with cavity-coupled diaphragms" in JASA Express Letters, led by Dr. Haijun Liu 

7/12/2021: Dr. Kim co-authored a journal paper, "Modeling, Characterization, and Fabrication of Bell-tip Microneedle Array by Diffraction and Self-Aligned Lens Effects" in Applied Physics Letters, led by Dr. Jungkuwn Kim.

6/25/2021: Sayemul Islam's paper is selected as a Best Paper Finalist at the Transducer 2021. Congratulations!

11/30/2020: Our journal paper (S. Islam et al.), "Machine Learning Enabled Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System," is selected as a featured article in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME): https://www.embs.org/tbme/articles/a-machine-learning-enabled-wireless-intracranial-brain-deformation-sensing-system/

11/30/2020: A journal paper titled "Implantable Cisplatin Synthesis Microdevice for Regional Chemotherapy" (R. Campbell et al.) is accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials. 

11/5/2020: A journal paper titled "A Hydrogel-based Ultrasonic Backscattering Wireless Biochemical Sensing" is accepted in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

10/14/2020: Our Smart Stent project has featured in Temple News.

9/1/2020: Dr. Kim and collaborators (Drs. Haijun Liu and Jungkuwn Kim) have received a new grant from the NSF ECCS program. We thank the NSF for supporting our research. We are excited to develop a highly integrated smart stent for abdominal aneurysm repair surveillance.

6/4/2020: A journal paper titled “Human Oral Motion-Powered Smart Dental Implant (SDI) for In Situ Ambulatory Photobiomodulation Therapy” is accepted in Advanced Healthcare Materials.

5/16/2020: A journal paper titled “In vitro Study on Smart Stent for Autonomous Post-Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance” (S. Islam et al.) is accepted in IEEE Access.

5/18/2020: Dr. Kim serves as a Guest Editor for special issue "Micro- and Nano-scale Sensors and Sensorial Systems in Bioengineering and Biotechnology," in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

4/18/2020: A journal paper titled “A Machine Learning Enabled Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System” (S. Islam et al.) is accepted in IEEE Transaction in Biomedical Engineering (TBME).

4/7/2020: A journal paper titled “Biodegradable Piezoelectric Transducer for Powering Transient Implants” is accepted in IEEE Access

1/10/2020: A journal paper titled “An Ultrasonically Powered Implantable Microprobe for Electrolytic Ablation,” is accepted in Nature Scientific Reports.

12/20/2019: Our work in a collaboration with Dr. Geelsu Hwang at U of Penn is accepted as a journal paper, titled “A Comprehensive Analysis of Near-Contact Photobiomodulation Therapy in the Host-Bacteria Interaction Model Using 3D-Printed Modular LED Platform” in Advanced Biosystem

8/20/2019: Rebecca Campbell joined the Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab. Welcome!

7/12/2019: Congratulation to Sayemul, Dr. H. Kim, Dr. Hwang, Dr. Song, Dr. Picone, and Dr. Kim on their acceptance to 2019 BMES Annual Meeting. Our all 4 submissions were accepted: one oral and three poster presentations

6/22/2019-6/27/2019: Dr. Kim travel to Berlin, Germany to attend and present oral and poster presentations in 2019 Transducer conference

5/1/2019: Diane Buton joined AµBL during summer. Welcome!

2/21/2019: Congratulation to Dr. Yoo and Dr. Kim on their acceptance to 2019 Transducer conference as an oral presentation

12/10/2018: Dr. Kim and his colleagues in Purdue University published a journal paper titled “An Implantable Ultrasonically-Powered Micro-Light-Source (µLight) for Photodynamic Therapy” in Nature Scientific Reports

10/29/2018: Congratulation to Bill, Sayemul, Sam, Anna, Dr. Song, Dr. Ahmad, and Dr. Kim on their acceptance to 2019 MEMS conference as a poster presentation.

7/10/2018: Congratulation to Anirvan, Sayemul, Sai, Dr. Loh, Dr. Hutapea, Dr. Kim on their acceptance to 2018 BMES Annual Meeting as a poster presentation.

6/21/2018: Dr. Kim and his colleagues in Purdue published a journal paper titled “Yeast metabolic response as an indicator of radiation damage in biological tissue” in Advanced Biosystems

5/11/2018: Dr. Kim and his colleagues in Purdue published a journal paper titled “An Ultrasonically Controlled Switching System for Power Management in Implantable Devices” in Biomedical Microdevices

5/7/2018: Jonathan Deslouches, Ji Ku, Anna Nguyen, William Purcell, Samuel Rhee, Kevin Simonson, Elijah Zimmerman joined AµBL during summer

4/15/2018: Dr. Kim and his colleagues in Purdue published a journal paper titled “A Wireless Chemical Sensing Scheme using Ultrasonic Imaging of Silica-Particle-Embedded Hydrogels (Silicagel)” in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical

3/27/2018: Congratulation to Anirvan (oral) and Sayemul (poster) on their acceptance to Hilton Head Workshop 2018 conference.

2/28/2018: Congratulation to Sayemul on his acceptance to IMBioC 2018 conference as an oral presentation.

1/16/2018: Anirvan Majumdar joined the Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab

12/21/2017: Invited talk @ T3 Excite Center, Drexel University

10/10/2017: Lab 920 (dry lab) granted

9/28/2017: Invited research talk @ TEMOSC

9/15/2017: Graduate student orientation – Welcome everyone!

8/31/2017: Lab access to 411 (wet lab) granted!

8/28/2017: Fall 2017 semester starts

8/14/2017: Sayemul Islam joined the Acousto-Bioelectronics Lab

8/1/2017: Dr. Albert Kim joined Temple University