June 28, 2006

Lazzi Wins IEEE Award for Paper on Retinal Prosthesis

Dr. Gianluca Lazzi, professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, has received the H.A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Antennas and Propagation Society (APS) for the paper, “Impedance Matching and Implementation of Planar Space-Filling Dipoles as Intraocular Implanted Antennas in a Retinal Prosthesis.” Lazzi coauthored the paper with Dr. K. Gosalia and Dr. M. Humayun of the Johns Hopkins University.

The Wheeler award is given for the best application paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Papers are judged on style, presentation, technical contributions and the significance of the results. It is presented at the IEEE APS Symposium held July 9-14 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Lazzi is internationally known for his groundbreaking work in bioelectromagnetics and retinal prosthetics. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1998. He joined the NC State faculty in 1999.

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