Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Biography

Dr. Vázquez-Guardado joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NC State University in January 2023 as assistant professor. He received his Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) in the University of Central Florida in 2018, his M.S. in Optics from the National Institute for Astrophysics Optics and Electronics in 2012 and his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, major in automation, from the Autonomous University of Nayarit in 2007. Dr. Vázquez-Guardado was a postdoctoral fellow in the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University (2019–2022) where he participated in the design, development, and deployment of wireless implantable devices for neuroscience research and biomedical applications.

His research interests are in optoelectronic and nanophotonic device physics that serve as the building blocks for multimodal bidirectional bio-interfaces for applications in real-time biosensing, biomedical and neuroscience research, clinical diagnostics, and unsupervised feedback-controlled human interfaces.

Education

• Ph.D. 2018
  Optics and Photonics
  University of Central Florida
• Master's 2012
  Optics
  Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
• Bachelor's 2007
  Electrical Engineering
  Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit

Recent Publications

• A wirelessly programmable, skin- integrated thermo- haptic stimulator system for virtual reality (2024)
• An autonomous implantable device for the prevention of death from opioid overdose (2024)
• Patterned wireless transcranial optogenetics generates artificial perception (2024)
• Remote optogenetic control of the enteric nervous system and brain-gut axis in freely-behaving mice enabled by a wireless, battery-free optoelectronic device (2024)
• A Miniaturized, Battery-Free, Wireless Wound Monitor That Predicts Wound Closure Rate Early (2023)
• Bioresorbable, wireless, and battery-free system for electrotherapy and impedance sensing at wound sites (2023)
• Optogenetic activation of visual thalamus generates artificial visual percepts (2023)
• Remote control of muscle-driven miniature robots with battery-free wireless optoelectronics (2023)
• Skin-integrated systems for power efficient, programmable thermal sensations across large body areas (2023)
• A transient, closed-loop network of wireless, body-integrated devices for autonomous electrotherapy (2022)