NCID-0902
Dieff Vital
Doctor
The University of Illinois-Chicago
Education/Degree:
1 Electrical and Computer Engineering (Florida International University)
About
Dieff Vital completed his Ph.D. at the Florida International University. His research interests include RF systems on-textile, wireless power transfer and harvesting for Internet of Things and smart dressing solutions for electrochemical sensing and monitoring. He filed two inventions for his work on a smart charging system, which enabled his to be awarded of 50k-grant from the National Science Foundation where he proposed a wireless charging platform on clothing to provide patients with the convenient charging of their electronic medical devices, as well as a smart bandage for electrochemical sensing and monitoring. Dr. Vital received the Florida Academy of Sciences Al Hall Memorial Award for Best Poster and Excellent Academic Achievement for this work. He was a recipient of the McKnight Dissertation Fellowship. He is currently a Bridge-to-Faculty Postdoc Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIC.
Current Work
"Dr. Vital's scholarship explores:
• The development of a smart bandage for monitoring and healing of chronic wounds. This will involve fabric-integrated data modulation, electrochemical sensing, and telemetry.
• The development of a smart underwear for continuous monitoring of fertility, infectious disease, pregnancy, etc.
• The development of a smart system to continuously monitor disorders pertaining to the gastro-intestinal track (gut).
• The development of a smart clothing accessory for wireless power transfer and harvesting of radio frequency signals readily available in our environment. This will also include pattern-reconfigurable schemes for robust power reception from 5G base stations."