Reza Ghodssi   Herbert Rabin Distinguished Associate Professor


Contact Information

2236 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301)405-8158
E-mail: ghodssi@umd.edu


Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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  • The Institute for Systems Research
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  • Maryland Nanocenter
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  • Fischell Department of Bioengineering
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  • Materials Science and Engineering
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  • University of Maryland Energy Research Center
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  • University of Maryland
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    Honors and Awards

  • Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, 2008
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE) U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2007
  • Best Paper Award, IPRM Conference, 2005
  • Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, University of Maryland, 2003
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2002
  • George Corcoran Award, University of Maryland, 2001
  • Vilas Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1995-96
  • Graduate Research Award, American Vacuum Society (AVS), 1995


    • Selected Publications

    K. Gerasopoulos, M. McCarthy, E. Royston, J.N. Culver, and R. Ghodssi, "Nanostructured Nickel Electrodes using the Tobacco Mosaic Virus for Microbattery Applications," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM), June 2008. (In Press)

    N. Ghalichechian, A. Modafe, M. Beyaz, and R. Ghodssi, "Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Rotary Micromotor Supported on Microball Bearings," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 632-642, 2008.

    B. Morgan, and R. Ghodssi, "Vertically-shaped Tunable MEMS Resonators," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 85-92, 2008.

    S. T. Koev, M. A. Powers, H. Yi, L-Q. Wu, W. E. Bentley, G. W. Rubloff, G. F. Payne, and R. Ghodssi, "Mechano-transduction of DNA Hybridization and Dopamine Oxidation through Electrodeposited Chitosan Network," Lab on a Chip (LOC), Vol. 7, pp. 103-111, 2007.

    C. M. Waits, B. Geil, and R. Ghodssi, "Encapsulated Ball Bearings for Rotary Micro Machines," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM), Vol. 17, pp. S224-S229, 2007.

    B. Morgan, J. McGee, and R. Ghodssi, "Automated 2-Axis Optical Fiber Alignment using Gray-scale Technology," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), Vol. 16, No. 16, pp. 102-110, 2007.

    N. Ghalichechian, A. Modafe, J. H. Lang, and R. Ghodssi, "Dynamic Characterization of a Linear Electrostatic Micromotor Supported on Microball Bearings," Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical, vol. 136 (2), pp. 416-503, May 2007.

    J. J. Park, X. Luo, H. Yi, T. M. Valentine, G. F. Payne, W. E. Bentley, R. Ghodssi, and G. W. Rubloff, "In situ Biomolecule Assembly in Completely Packaged Microfluidic Devices," Lab on a Chip (LOC), Vol. 6, pp. 1315-1321, 2006.

    A. Modafe, N. Ghalichechian, A. Frey, J. H. Lang, and R. Ghodssi, "Microball-Bearing-Supported Electrostatic Micromachines with Polymer Dielectric Films for Electromechanical Power Conversion," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM), vol. 16, pp.S182-S190, September 2006.

    M. W. Pruessner, N. Siwak, K. Amarnath, S. Kanakaraju, W.-H. Chuang and R. Ghodssi, "End-coupled Optical waveguide MEMS Devices in the Indium Phosphide Material System," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM), Vol. 16, pp. 832-842, April 2006.

    H. Yi, S. Nisar, S-Y Lee, M. A. Powers, W. E. Bently, G. F. Payne, R. Ghodssi, G. W. Rubloff, M. T. Harris, and J. N. Culver, "Patterened Assembly of Genetically Modified Viral Nanotemplates via Nucleic Acid Hybridization," Nano Letters, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 1931-1936, 2005.

    H. Yi, L-Q Wu, W. E. Bentley, R. Ghodssi, G. W. Rubloff, J. N. Culver, and G. F. Payne, "Biofabrication with Chitosan," Journal of Biomacromolecules, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 2881-2894, 2005.

    M. A. Powers, S. T. Koev, A. Schleunitz, H. Yi, V. Hodzic, W. E. Bentley, G. F. Payne, G. W. Rubloff, and R. Ghodssi, "A Fabrication Platform for Electrically Mediated Optically Active Biofunctionalized Sites in BioMEMS", Lab on a Chip, Vol. 5, pp. 583-586, 2005.

    M. W. Pruessner, K. Amarnath, M. Datta, D. Kelly, S. Kanakaraju, P-T. Ho and R. Ghodssi, "InP-Based Optical Waveguide MEMS Switches with Evanescent Coupling Mechanism," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS), Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1070-1081, October 2005.