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Alan V. Sahakian

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Dean

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech L253 (Dean's Office) or Tech L394 (Faculty Office)
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-3641Email Alan Sahakian

Website

Alan Sahakian's Homepage

Departments

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

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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

  • Emre Besler, Yearnchee Curtis Wang, Terence Chan, Alan Varteres Sahakian, “Classifying small volumes of tissue for real-time monitoring radiofrequency ablation”, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2019, Proceedings, (2019)
  • Yosef Schwartz, Jeremiah Wasserlauf, Alan Varteres Sahakian, Bradley Paul Knight, “Inappropriate activation of pacemaker magnet response mode by CPAP masks”, PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, (2019)
  • Yearnchee Curtis Wang, Terence Chee Hung Chan, Alan Varteres Sahakian, “Real-time estimation of lesion depth and control of radiofrequency ablation within ex vivo animal tissues using a neural network”, International Journal of Hyperthermia, (2018)
  • F. Callewaert, V. Velev, P. Kumar, A. V. Sahakian, K. Aydin, “Inverse-Designed Broadband All-Dielectric Electromagnetic Metadevices”, Scientific Reports, (2018)
  • Francois Callewaert, Vesselin Velev, Shizhou Jiang, Alan Varteres Sahakian, Prem Kumar, Koray Aydin, “Inverse-designed stretchable metalens with tunable focal distance”, Applied Physics Letters, (2018)
  • Joseph S. Friedman, Anuj Girdhar, Ryan M. Gelfand, Gokhan Memik, Hooman Mohseni, Allen Taflove, Bruce W. Wessels, Jean Pierre Leburton, Alan V. Sahakian, “Cascaded spintronic logic with low-dimensional carbon”, Nature Communications, (2017)
  • Joseph S. Friedman, Eric R. Fadel, Bruce W. Wessels, Damien Querlioz, Alan V. Sahakian, “Bilayer avalanche spin-diode logic”, AIP Advances, (2015)
  • Mayler Martins, Felipe Marranghello, Joseph Friedman, Alan Sahakian, Renato Ribas, Andre Reis, “Enhanced spin-diode synthesis using logic sharing”, Proceedings - 18th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2015, (2015)