UP Alumni Achievers: Dr. John Richard E. Hizon
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Dr. John Richard E. Hizon, an accomplished and prolific researcher and professor, has been a faculty member of the UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute for almost three decades. He served as the former Director of the Institute from 2015 to 2019, and is currently affiliated with the UP Microelectronics and Microprocessors Laboratory (MicroLab) where they develop wireless sensor nodes for emerging IoT applications by applying digital and analog co-design techniques and taking advantage of More-than-Moore technologies. Dr. Hizon was also a former Graduate Teaching Associate in the Imperial College London. He has dozens of published research at conference and journal publications, and is affiliated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. John Richard E. Hizon, an accomplished and prolific researcher and professor, has been a faculty member of the UP Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute for almost three decades. He served as the former Director of the Institute from 2015 to 2019, and is currently affiliated with the UP Microelectronics and Microprocessors Laboratory (MicroLab) where they develop wireless sensor nodes for emerging IoT applications by applying digital and analog co-design techniques and taking advantage of More-than-Moore technologies. Dr. Hizon was also a former Graduate Teaching Associate in the Imperial College London. He has dozens of published research at conference and journal publications, and is affiliated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
He has led capacity building programs, with generous support from the DOST, to increase the participation of SUCs and private universities in the field of microelectronics research. His research interests include low power reconfigurable analog circuits, low energy wireless sensor nodes, and biomedical as well as environmental devices and systems. He is currently working on an online platform to use IoT devices in redefining air quality monitoring in the country through the DOST funded UP Center for Air Research in Urban Environments (UP CARE). He is also working on an AI/ML assisted footwear-based monitoring device for home based elderly monitoring.
He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of the Philippines – Diliman and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom.
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