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Virgilio Valente is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He received the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from University College London (UCL), U.K., in 2011. Between 2011 and 2017 he held a Research Associate position in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL, during which, in 2015, he also joined Tetrivis LTD, UK, as an IC design engineer. In 2017, Virgilio was a Visiting Scholar at the Nano Lab, Tufts University, Medford, USA.  In 2018 he joined the Department of Microelectronics at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands as Faculty Research Fellow in Bioelectronics.

Dr. Valente’s research focuses on the design of integrated sensor systems for implantable and injectable wireless biosensor networks, with medical applications including wireless health monitoring, diagnostics and closed-loop therapy.

Dr. Valente is a member of the Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) and the recipient of the 2017 EPSRC IRC i-sense Mobility Fellowship. He served as track chair at the 2019 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Bangkok, Thailand and he is currently a member of the IEEE ICECS Technical Program Committee. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.