TEXPO2021
Virtual Event
Student Research Competition
TEXPO 2021 Graduate Student Research Competition is an annual competition that offers graduate students across Canada’s National Design Network a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of microsystems and nanotechnologies to industry and academic representatives while competing for a total of $12,500 in prize money.
Program Schedule
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - Eastern Standard Time
10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome Remarks | |||
10:05 – 10:25 | Megatrends for Next Generation Networks from an RF Perspective Ned Cahoon, CTO Office GlobalFoundries | |||
Track 1 Brian L. Barge Microsystems Integration Award | Track 2 Micro-Nanosystems Design Award | Track 3 Industrial Collaboration Award | Excellence in Nanofabrication Award | |
10:30 – 10:50 | A Discrete-Time CMOS Readout Array for High-Speed Portable DNA Sequencing Yunus Dawji York University | An Efficient Spiking Neuron Hardware System Based on the Hardware-Oriented Modified Izhikevich Neuron (HOMIN) Model Alexander Leigh University of Windsor | Design and Conception of a Smart Gigabit Ethernet Switch for Chassis Communication in Hardware-in-a-loop Systems Simon Bellemare Université Laval | A Chip-Scale High Speed Rotary Polygon Micro-scanner for Beam Steering Application Amit Gour École de Technologie Supérieure |
10:50 – 11:10 | New Spectrometer Design Based on a Grism for the Detection of Neurotransmitters Gabriel Lachance Université Laval | Chemiresistive Material Tester Calvin Love University of Windsor | Development and Characterization of a Custom Large-Scale Silicon Interposer Technology for Particle Physics Experiments Keven Deslandes Université de Sherbrooke | Integrating processing and sensing in MEMS for biomechanical analysis Laurent Chiasson-Poirier, Mathieu Bergeron, Guillaume Dion Université de Sherbrooke |
11:10 – 11:30 | A Novel Evaporating Droplet-Based Capacitive Biosensor for Creating a Unique 3D Fingerprint of Chemical Analytes Hamed Osouli Tabrizi York University | Pulse Shaping Using Nonlinear Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducers Mathieu Gratuze École de Technologie Supérieure | A Miniaturized Portable Over-the-Air Measurement System for Characterization of 5G Integrated Communication Systems Mahdi Behdani University of Alberta | Fabrication of Novel Realistic Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Arrays for Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Applications Mahyar Ghavami, Mohammad Maadi University of Alberta |
11:30 – 11:50 | Compact MRgHIFU Phased Array System Integration Andre Lafreniere Lakehead University | Energy-efficient Coded-Exposure-Pixel (CEP) Cameras for Accurate Computational Imaging without Motion Artifacts Rahul Gulve University of Toronto | A Fully Passive Phased-Array Antenna Module for Hybrid Approach-Based Large-Scale Phased-Array Antenna Systems Amir Raeesi University of Waterloo | |
11:50 – 12:10 | High-Efficiency Ultra-Low-Power Integrated RF Energy Harvesting for IoT, Wearable Devices and Biomedical Applications Seyed Mohammad Noghabaei Polytechnique Montreal | A Discrete-Time CMOS Readout Array for High-Speed Portable DNA Sequencing Yunus Dawji York University | Hardware System Design of the Ultra-High Resolution Brain Positron Emission Tomography Scanner Jonathan Bouchard Université de Sherbrooke | |
12:10 – 12:40 | BREAK | |||
12:40 – 1:00 | Integrating processing and sensing in MEMS for biomechanical analysis Laurent Chiasson-Poirier, Mathieu Bergeron, Guillaume Dion Université de Sherbrooke | New Spectrometer Design Based on a Grism for the Detection of Neurotransmitters Gabriel Lachance Université Laval | ||
1:00 – 1:20 | Energy-efficient Coded-Exposure-Pixel (CEP) Cameras for Accurate Computational Imaging without Motion Artifacts Rahul Gulve University of Toronto | A Novel Evaporating Droplet-Based Capacitive Biosensor for Creating a Unique 3D Fingerprint of Chemical Analytes Hamed Osouli Tabrizi York University | ||
1:20 – 1:40 | A Fully Passive Phased-Array Antenna Module for Hybrid Approach-Based Large-Scale Phased-Array Antenna Systems Amir Raeesi University of Waterloo | Development and Characterization of a Custom Large-Scale Silicon Interposer Technology for Particle Physics Experiments Keven Deslandes Université de Sherbrooke | ||
1:40 – 2:00 | Hardware System Design of the Ultra-High Resolution Brain Positron Emission Tomography Scanner Jonathan Bouchard Université de Sherbrooke | Compact MRgHIFU Phased Array System Integration Andre Lafreniere Lakehead University | ||
2:10 – 2:30 | Gord Harling, President and CEO CMC Microsystems | |||
2:30 – 2:50 | “The Democratization of Modeling and Simulation” Phil Kinnane, Vice President of Sales COMSOL | |||
2:55 – 3:15 | “State-of-the-art Nanopatterning with Electrons and Ions” Rainer Schmid, VP Applications & Customer Projects Raith America, Inc. | |||
3:20 – 4:00 | Award Presentations Douglas R. Colton Award TEXPO Awards | |||
4:00 | Closing Remarks |
Key Info
The primary TEXPO presenter must be a graduate student at a Canadian university at the time of abstract submission. Research supervisors, faculty members and postdoctoral fellows contributing to a project are welcome to participate as secondary presenters in the competition.
Important Information for TEXPO Participants.
TEXPO is going to be held virtually this year. More details to follow.
- Schedule:
- Thursday, January 28, 2021
9:30am – 4:30 pm (EST)
- Thursday, January 28, 2021
- Judging of your Demo:
- Please review the judging criteria carefully. Information on the awards may be found above. Each award page includes the judging criteria.
Judging will take place from 9:30 am.- 4:30 pm on Thursday, January 28, 2021
- You will have a total of 15 minutes to present your project to the judges. This includes upto 10 minutes prerecorded video of your demo, followed by a 5 minute question and answer period with the judges. There are typically three judges for each competition (ideally two from industry and one from academia).
Your presentation will be public during the judging process, however only the judges will be able to ask questions.
- Please review the judging criteria carefully. Information on the awards may be found above. Each award page includes the judging criteria.
- Presentation of Awards:
- Winners will be announced immediately following TEXPO.
TEXPO winners are strongly encouraged to use prize funds to support education or training related to micro-nanosystems R&D. Funds may be applied to the cost of attending a conference or workshop or visiting a lab or other technical facility inside or outside of Canada.