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258 About the Authors

he worked for an extended period of time at Yokogawa Electric Corporation in
Tokyo, Japan. In 2001, he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Southamp-
ton, United Kingdom, for a thesis entitled “Microfluidic Devices for Integrated
Bio/Chemical Systems.” In 2002, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the
University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, within the Center of Applied
Microsystems. Currently, he is with the Fraunhofer Institution for Silicon Technol-
ogy in Itzehoe, Germany, working in the biotechnical microsystems group. In 2001,
he was awarded the Ayrton Premium by the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE),
United Kingdom.

John Tudor obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Surrey University and a B.Sc. (Eng.) in
electronic and electrical engineering from University College London. In 1987 he
joined Schlumberger Industries, working first at their transducer division in Farn-
borough and then at their research center in Paris, France. In 1990 he joined South-
ampton University as a lecturer. In 1994 Dr. Tudor joined ERA Technology as the
microsystems program manager. In 2001, he returned to Southampton University as
a senior research fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer Science to pursue
university-based research in microsystems. Dr. Tudor has 25 publications and seven
patents and served on the IEE Microengineering Committee for 4 years. He is both a
chartered physicist and an engineer. Dr. Tudor has contributed material to Chapters
5 and 6.
Tinghu Yan received a B.Sc. in 1988 and an M.Sc. in 1991, both in mechanical engi-
neering, and a Ph.D. in instrumentation science and engineering in 1994, all from
Southeast University, China. He is currently a research fellow in the Department of
Design and Systems Engineering at Brunel University, United Kingdom. His research
involves the design of metallic resonant force sensors, load cells, torque transducers,
and associated electronics including wireless and batteryless sensing technologies.
He was formerly a lecturer and an associate professor within the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at Southeast University. His other research interests include
acoustic emission and nondestructive testing, condition monitoring and intelligent
fault diagnosis, signal processing and pattern recognition, modeling, and optimiza-
tion. He has more than 40 academic publications.