Reid R. Harrison

University of Utah

Office: Merrill Engineering Building, Room 3114
Lab: Merrill Engineering Building, Room 3129
Phone: (801) 587-7926
Fax: (801) 581-5281
harrison (at) ece.utah.edu

Mailing Address
50 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3280
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Current CV / Resume (last updated Jul. 2008)

Education

• Ph.D., Computation and Neural Systems, with additional study in Electrical Engineering, 2000, Caltech
  
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1994, University of Florida
  

Awards

• Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper, ISSCC 2006
• University of Utah College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, 2006
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002

Research Interests

• Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design and testing
• Low-power, low-noise integrated electronics for biomedical applications (Spin-off company: Intan Technologies, LLC)
• Electronics for large-scale, multi-unit neuronal recording
• Efficient IC implementations of biological vision systems for smart sensors
• CMOS circuit design in moderate and weak inversion

Selected Publications by Area

• Low-Power Integrated Circuits for Neural Recording (see also Intan Technologies, LLC)
  • R.R. Harrison, "The design of integrated circuits to observe brain activity," Proceedings of the IEEE 96: 1203-1216, July 2008. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison, R.J. Kier, C.A. Chestek, V. Gilja, P. Nuyujukian, S.I. Ryu, B. Greger, F. Solzbacher, and K.V. Shenoy, "Wireless neural signal acquisition with single low-power integrated circuit," In: Proc. 2008 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008), Seattle, WA, pp. 1748-1751, 2008. PDF.
  • C.A. Chestek, V. Gilja, P. Nuyujukian, R.J. Kier, F. Solzbacher, S.I. Ryu, R.R. Harrison, and K.V. Shenoy, "HermesC: RF wireless low-power neural recording for freely behaving primates," In: Proc. 2008 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2008), Seattle, WA, pp. 1752-1755, 2008. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison, "Integrated circuits for neural interfacing: neuroelectrical recording," In: VLSI Circuits for Biomedical Applications, K. Iniewski, Ed., Boston, MA: Artech House, pp. 165-178, 2008.
  • R.R. Harrison, "A versatile integrated circuit for the acquisition of biopotentials," In: IEEE 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2007) Digest of Technical Papers, San Jose, CA, pp. 115-122, 2007. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison, P.T. Watkins, R.J. Kier, R.O. Lovejoy, D.J. Black, B. Greger, and F. Solzbacher, "A low-power integrated circuit for a wireless 100-electrode neural recording system," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 42: 123-133, January 2007. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison, "Designing efficient inductive power links for implantable devices," In: Proc. 2007 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2007), New Orleans, LA, pp. 2080-2083, 2007. PDF.
    • Please see the correction to an equation in this paper.
  • R. Harrison, P. Watkins, R. Kier, R. Lovejoy, D. Black, R. Normann, and F. Solzbacher, "A low-power integrated circuit for a wireless 100-electrode neural recording system," In: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2006) Digest of Technical Papers, San Francisco, CA, pp. 554-555, 2006. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison and C. Charles, "A low-power low-noise CMOS amplifier for neural recording applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 38: 958-965, June 2003. PDF.
• CMOS Sensors for Locating Wiring Faults
  • C.R. Sharma, C. Furse, and R.R. Harrison, "Low-power STDR CMOS sensor for locating faults in aging aircraft wiring," IEEE Sensors Journal, 7: 43-50, January 2007. PDF.
• CMOS Analog Circuits for Error-Control Decoding
  • C. Winstead, J. Dai, S. Yu, C. Myers, R.R. Harrison, and C. Schlegel, "CMOS analog MAP decoder for (8,4) Hamming code," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 39: 122-131, January 2004. PDF.
• CMOS Floating-Gate Circuits for Analog Nonvolatile Storage
  • R.R. Harrison, J.A. Bragg, P. Hasler, B.A. Minch, and S.P. Deweerth, "A CMOS programmable analog memory-cell array using floating-gate circuits," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II, 48: 4-11, January 2001. PDF.
• Biologically-Inspired Integrated Circuits
  • R.J. Kier, J.C. Ames, R.D. Beer, and R.R. Harrison, "Design and implementation of multipattern generators in analog VLSI," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 17: 1025-1038, July 2006. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison, "A biologically-inspired analog IC for visual collision detection," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I 52: 2308-2318, November 2005. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison and C. Koch, " A robust analog VLSI Reichardt motion sensor," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 24: 213-229, 2000. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison and C. Koch, "A silicon implementation of the fly's optomotor control system," Neural Computation, 12: 2291-2304, 2000. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison and C. Koch, "An analog VLSI implementation of a visual interneuron: enhanced sensory processing through biophysical modeling," International Journal of Neural Systems, 9: 391-395, 1999. PDF.
  • R.R. Harrison and C. Koch, "A robust analog VLSI motion sensor," Autonomous Robots, 7: 211-224, 1999. PDF.
• Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) Studies of Human Visual Cortex
  • H.W. Chen, C.J. Aine, E. Best, D. Ranken, R.R. Harrison, E.R. Flynn, and C.C. Wood, "Nonlinear analysis of biological systems using short m-sequences and sparse-stimulation techniques," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 24: 513-536, 1996.
• Robotics for Planetary Exploration
  • L. Matthies, E. Gat, R. Harrison, B. Wilcox, R. Volpe, and T. Litwin, "Mars microrover navigation: performance evaluation and enhancement," Autonomous Robots, 2: 291-311, 1995.

Classes

• 2000-2006
  • ECE 3110: Electronics II
  • ECE 6961-009: Low Power Circuit Design
  • ECE/CS 5720/6720 - Analog Integrated Circuit Design
  • ECE 6961-001: Bio-Inspired Sensors Seminar
  • ECE 6721:Analog Integrated Circuits Lab
  • ECE 6722: Analog Integrated Circuit Testing

• Fall 2006
  • ECE 3110: Electronics II -- Class Home Page
  • ECE 6722: Analog Integrated Circuit Testing

• Spring 2007
  • ECE/CS 5720/6720: Analog Integrated Circuit Design -- Class Home Page
  • ECE 6721: Analog Integrated Circuits Lab -- Class Home Page

Other Professional Activities

• Member, Technical Subcommittee for Imagers, MEMS, Medical, and Display; IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2006 - present.

• Member, Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee; IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2006 - present.

• Organizer, IEEE SSCTC 2001 Workshop on Low-Power Circuits
  October 11-12, 2001, Arlington, Virginia

• Professional memberships: IEEE Solid State Circuits Society; IEEE Circuits and Systems Society; IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Society for Neuroscience