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Amy Droitcour
Doctoral Alumnus
EDUCATION:
- BS,
Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, 2000
- MS,
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2003
- PhD,
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2006
WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Summers
2000 & 2001 - Senior Technical Associate, Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
- Summer
1999 - RF Rngineering Intern, Dynamic Telecommunications Inc., Germantown, MD
- Summer
1998 - Systems Engineering Intern, Raytheon Electronic Systems, Portsmouth, RI
- Summers
1996 & 1997 - Quality Engineering Assistant, Droitcour Co., Warwick, RI
RESEARCH
INTERESTS: My
thesis project was the development of a single-chip radar system to be used
for non-contact, through-clothing measurement of heart and respiration rates.
I worked on the RF integrated circuit design, analog board design, and
physiological signal processing, but the system-level research was my
favorite part of the project and the main thrust of what went in my thesis. I
analyzed the system, identified its limiting factors and came up with some
potential improvements to the early generation systems. Then I implemented
the improvements and then proved that the analysis was correct through
experiments in the electronics laboratory and an IRB-approved study on human
subjects.
PUBLICATIONS:
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
G. T. A. Kovacs, “Physiological motion sensing with modified silicon
base station chips,” IEICE Trans. Electronics, vol. E-87C, no. 9,
pp. 1524-1531, Sept. 2004.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
G. T. A. Kovacs, “Range correlation and I/Q performance benefits in
single chip silicon Doppler radars for non-contact cardiopulmonary
monitoring,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol.
52, no.3, pp. 838-848, March 2004.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
G. T. A. Kovacs, “Modified silicon base station chips as biomedical
sensors,” Proc. IEEE TCWCT, Oct. 2003, pp. 210-211.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
G. T. A. Kovacs, “Range correlation effect on ISM band I/Q CMOS radar
for non-contact sensing of vital signs,” IEEE MTT-IMS Digest, June
2003, vol. 3, pp.1945-1948.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
“0.25 mm CMOS and BiCMOS
single-chip direct-conversion Doppler radars for remote sensing of vital
signs,” IEEE ISSCC Digest, Feb. 2002, vol. 1, pp.348-348.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
“A microwave radio for Doppler radar sensing of vital signs,” 2001
IEEE MTT-S IMS Digest, May 2001, vol. 1, pp.175-178.
- A. D. Droitcour, O. Boric-Lubecke, V. Lubecke, J. Lin,
G. T. A. Kovacs, “Wireless sensing of cardiopulmonary motion using
silicon Doppler radars” in Workshop WM2: Wireless sensors: Devices,
systems, and applications, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference,
Atlanta, GA, Sept. 2004.
- D. Samardzija, O. Boric-Lubecke, A. Host-Madsen, V. M.
Lubecke, T. Sizer, A. D. Droitcour, G. T. A. Kovacs, “Applications of
MIMO Techniques to Sensing of Cardiopulmonary Activity,” Proceedings
of Wireless Communications and Applied Computations
Electromagnetics 2005, pp. 618-621.
- O. Boric-Lubecke, A. D. Droitcour, V. M. Lubecke, J.
Lin, G. T. A. Kovacs, “Wireless IC Doppler radars for sensing of heart and respiration
activity,” Proc. 2003 IEEE TELSIKS, Nis, Serbia,
Oct. 2003, vol. 1, pp. 337-344.
AWARDS
AND HONORS:
- Selection
for Bosch Student-Partner Information Exchange Program: traveled to
Bosch sites in Reutlingen and Schillerhohe, Germany,
2004
- Microwave
Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship, 2004
- First
Place 2003 IEEE MTT-S
International Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition
- Honorable
Mention, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Paper
Competition
OTHER
LINKS:
www.amydroitcour.com
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Stanford University
Department of Electrical Engineering
Center for Integrated Systems
CIS 205X
Stanford, CA 94305-4075
Office Phone: 650-725-6139
Email: adroit_at_stanfordalumni.org
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