New VINSE Faculty: Mona Ebrish
We are excited to welcome Dr. Mona Ebrish as our newest VINSE faculty member! Ebrish, who is joining Vanderbilt’s Electrical & Computer Engineering Department this spring, received her Bachelors from University of Tripoli in Electrical Engineering. In 2009, she received the Fulbright Fellowship and attended University of Minnesota for her Masters and PhD. Before coming to Vanderbilt, she has worked with IBM and the Naval Research Lab.
Research Highlight: The internet of things is the climax of the technology era where different devices share and record their perception of the surroundings. With this new paradigm of sharing comes a need for ubiquitous materials and devices that can perform reliably in harsh environments. This combination of functionalities necessitates moving away from monolithic Si electronics and consequently combining heterogeneous electronic systems of diverse materials. 2D materials and wide-bandgap semiconductors offer solutions where Si cannot. I have over a dozen patents and several publications in these different technologies that reflect a diverse school of thought and dynamic research methodology. Armed with this knowledge, my future research group will design and fabricate an ultra-compact System on Chip for IoT applications utilizing these different technologies. My research group will innovate and develop new building blocks for standalone IoT technology from different types of emerging materials and capitalize on their unique and overlooked properties. Under my leadership, I envision developing multiple techniques to fabricate and evaluate biological and chemical sensors that can be heterogeneously integrated with efficient power management devices on foundry compatible chiplets.