Faculty DirectoryAlan V. Sahakian

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech L253 (Dean's Office) or Tech L394 (Faculty Office)
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
847-491-3641Email Alan Sahakian
Website
Departments
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering with minor in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconisin-Madison, Madison, WI
B.S. Applied Science and Physics, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Madison, WI
Research Interests
Cardiac electrophysiology, in particular the mechanisms, monitoring and automatic diagnosis and treatment of the atrial cardiac arrhythmias. Irreversible electroporation methods for ablating cancerous tumors including non-resectable liver and pancreatic cancer. RF ablation for establishing cancer-free post-lumpectomy margins. Non-contact vital signs monitoring using millimeter-wave and other remote sensing methods. Beyond-CMOS logic realizations including spintronics, magneto-resistive devices and circuits and all-carbon logic.
Selected Publications
- Choi, Yeon Sik; Jeong, Hyoyoung; Yin, Rose T.; Avila, Raudel; Pfenniger, Anna; Yoo, Jaeyoung; Lee, Jong Yoon; Tzavelis, Andreas; Lee, Young Joong; Chen, Sheena W.; Knight, Helen S.; Kim, Seungyeob; Ahn, Hak Young; Wickerson, Grace; Vázquez-Guardado, Abraham; Higbee-Dempsey, Elizabeth; Russo, Bender A.; Napolitano, Michael A.; Holleran, Timothy J.; Razzak, Leen Abdul; Miniovich, Alana N.; Lee, Geumbee; Geist, Beth; Kim, Brandon; Han, Shuling; Brennan, Jaclyn A.; Aras, Kedar; Kwak, Sung Soo; Kim, Joohee; Waters, Emily Alexandria; Yang, Xiangxing; Burrell, Amy; Chun, Keum San; Liu, Claire; Wu, Changsheng; Rwei, Alina Y.; Spann, Alisha N.; Banks, Anthony; Johnson, David; Zhang, Zheng Jenny; Haney, Chad R.; Jin, Sung Hun; Sahakian, Alan Varteres; Huang, Yonggang; Trachiotis, Gregory D.; Knight, Bradley P.; Arora, Rishi K.; Efimov, Igor R.; Rogers, John A., A transient, closed-loop network of wireless, body-integrated devices for autonomous electrotherapy, Science (2022).
- Besler, Emre; Mathur, Priyanka; Gay, Hawkins; Passman, Rod; Sahakian, Alan, Inter-Patient Atrial Flutter Classification Using FFT-Based Features and a Low-Variance Stacking Classifier, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2022).
- Choi, Yeon Sik; Yin, Rose T.; Pfenniger, Anna; Koo, Jahyun; Avila, Raudel; Benjamin Lee, K.; Chen, Sheena W.; Lee, Geumbee; Li, Gang; Qiao, Yun; Murillo-Berlioz, Alejandro; Kiss, Alexi; Han, Shuling; Lee, Seung Min; Li, Chenhang; Xie, Zhaoqian; Chen, Yu Yu; Burrell, Amy; Geist, Beth; Jeong, Hyoyoung; Kim, Joohee; Yoon, Hong Joon; Banks, Anthony; Kang, Seung Kyun; Zhang, Zheng Jenny; Haney, Chad R.; Sahakian, Alan Varteres; Johnson, David; Efimova, Tatiana; Huang, Yonggang; Trachiotis, Gregory D.; Knight, Bradley P.; Arora, Rishi K.; Efimov, Igor R.; Rogers, John A., Fully implantable and bioresorbable cardiac pacemakers without leads or batteries, Nature biotechnology (2021).
- Besler, Emre; Wang, Yearnchee Curtis; Sahakian, Alan V., Early and late fusion machine learning on multi-frequency electrical impedance data to improve radiofrequency ablation monitoring, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 24(8):2359-2367 (2020).
- Besler, Emre; Wang, Yearnchee Curtis; Sahakian, Alan V., Real-Time Radiofrequency Ablation Lesion Depth Estimation Using Multi-frequency Impedance with a Deep Neural Network and Tree-Based Ensembles, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 67(7):1890-1899 (2020).
- Schwartz, Yosef; Wasserlauf, Jeremiah; Sahakian, Alan V.; Knight, Bradley, Inappropriate activation of pacemaker magnet response mode by CPAP masks, PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (2019).
- Besler, Emre; Curtis Wang, Y.; C. Chan, Terence; V. Sahakian, Alan, Real-time monitoring radiofrequency ablation using tree-based ensemble learning models, International Journal of Hyperthermia 36(1):428-437 (2019).
- Besler, Emre; Wang, Yearnchee Curtis; Chan, Terence; Sahakian, Alan Varteres, Classifying small volumes of tissue for real-time monitoring radiofrequency ablation, Springer Verlag:205-215 (2019).