ProfessorEsther Rodriguez Villegas

Overview
Esther Rodriguez-Villegas leads a multi-disciplinary team of thirteen Post Doctoral researchers and PhD students. The expertise in the group includes high performance analogue circuit design, biomedical signal processing, electronic circuit packaging, and high performance PCB design.

Her most recent research interests are focused on wearable sensors for breathing and cardiac monitoring and low-power electronics for the online processing of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals. Esther Rodgriguez-Villegas' EEG research is now receiving funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's 7th Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no. 239749. She is part of the Commodity-12 consortium for continious monitoring of type 1 and 2 diabetes and has been awarded the CrackIT Challenge in 2012 which is run by the National Centre for Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement of Animals in Reseearch and is sponsored by Eli Lilly.

Student Prizes
Alex Casson -- Eryl Cadwaladr Davies prize for best doctoral thesis in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2010)

Feng Y. Chan -- Nujira Prize for best final year analogue electronics project (2010)

P. Mirtorabi -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2008)

K. Choonee -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2007)

S. Patel -- Nick Battersby Prize for excellence in analogue electronics (2006)

I. I. Alam -- Usmani Prize in microelectronics (2005)

P. G. Corbishley -- Governors Prize and Usmani Prize in microelectronics, 2003. His final year project was judged by the IEE as one of the top three in the UK in the SET Awards.

PhD Supervision
Current PhD students
Zhou Jiang

Sorsby (Guangwei) Chen

Anas Imtiaz

Majd Eid

Saam Iranmanesh

Ruchir Saraswat

Mohammad Us aid Abbasi

Mohan Rajagopal



Past students
Lojini Logesparan -- Data reduction algorithms to enable long-term monitoring from low-power miniaturised wireless EEG systems, (2013)

Amir Abdulghani -- Compressive sensing theory for low-power wireless EEG communication systems, (2011)

John Richard Hizon -- Reconfigurable CMOS OATs for filters in multi-standard receivers, (2011)

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez -- Real-time algorithms for acoustic heart rate detection and respiratory rate extraction for use in miniature wearable breathing and heart monitor, (2011)

Alex Casson -- A data reduction algorithm incorporating a low-power continuous wavelet transform for use in wearable EEG systems, (2010)

Min Xu -- Pushing the limit of CMOS in analogue to digital conversion using floating gate MOS transistors, (2008)

Phil Corbishley -- Ultra low power circuits for a miniature apnoea detection device (2007)

Patents
Rodriguez-Villegas E, Chen G, et al. 2012, Feature characterization for breathing monitor, WO/2012/007719A1
Rodriguez-Villegas E, Duncan JS, Corbishley P, et al. 2007, A method and apparatus for monitoring respiratory activity, WO/2007/099314
Rodriguez-Villegas E, Yates D 2008, Apparatus and method for obtaining EEG data, WO/2008/015449
Rodriguez-Villegas E, Corbishley P, Sample and hold circuits, WO/2006/035230