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We are an interdisciplinary team working across circuits, materials, firmware and data science.

Principal Investigator

Marco Vinicio Alban-Paccha, MEng, PhD, FHEA, MIEEE

BDIC Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Electronic Engineering, Principal Investigator

Systems co-design for wearable and implantable medical devices

Marco is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering in University College Dublin. His work builds the supporting technologies that let wearable and implantable bioelectronic devices operate reliably outside the lab, spanning analogue front ends, embedded and mixed-signal systems, low-power wireless backends, firmware stacks and data governance. He approaches sensing, computation, communications and power as a single co-designed system with a focus on autonomy, data integrity, latency and clinical translation.

Previously, Marco was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2022–2025) at the University of Cambridge as part of the ADVANTAGE consortium for visceral pain, while also beingan Associate Lecturer at the Open University, and a Postdoctoral By-Fellow at Churchill College. Born in Quito, Ecuador, he earned a Mechatronics Engineering degree at the University of the Armed Forces (2013), an MEng in Micro/Nano Systems at Korea University (2018, GKS scholar), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at KAIST (2022).

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Team

Roman Percht, MEng

Doctoral Researcher

Low-power embedded systems for translational biomedical applications

Roman's research focuses on the design and integration of low-power embedded systems for translational biomedical applications, spanning sensing, signal processing, wireless communication, and secure data handling. He is particularly interested in how hardware, firmware, and data pipelines can be co-designed to enable reliable, energy-efficient, and clinically relevant bioelectronic systems.

He previously completed a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at University College Dublin (2024), where he developed a tactile sensing system integrated into a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for sensory feedback. During his studies, he gained industry experience at FIRE1, contributing to hardware and firmware development as well as regulatory processes for an implantable RF sensing device. Roman also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Device Technology from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (2022), where his work included the development of low-cost EMG electrodes for control of upper limb prosthetics.

Researcher One

Postdoctoral Researcher

Organic sensors and flexible microelectronics

This is a placeholder bio for Researcher One. We are currently looking for talented individuals to join our team. Stay tuned for updates!

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Researcher Two

Master's Student

Clinical trials and data integration

This is a placeholder bio for Researcher Two. We are currently looking for talented PhD Candidates, check below for open positions!

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Final-Year Undergraduate Projects

High-Throughput BLE 2M PHY Streaming of Multi-Channel Nerve Cuff Recordings

2025-2026

BDIC IoT Engineering

Wu Wei
Jin Hao
Luo Haoran
Wang Ziyan

For prospective members

The group welcomes people with backgrounds in electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, computer engineering, or related fields. Members will work on tightly coupled hardware and software problems, gaining experience across analogue electronics, embedded systems, wireless communications, firmware development, and data-centric system design.

Projects are hands-on and system-oriented, often involving custom electronics, low-power firmware stacks, wireless backends, and the analysis of real-world physiological and clinical datasets. Students are encouraged to engage with clinical collaborators and to consider how engineering choices affect usability, safety, privacy, and translational potential.

The training environment emphasises strong engineering fundamentals, independence, and cross-disciplinary thinking. Graduates of the group are prepared for careers in academia, medtech, neurotechnology, and advanced healthcare engineering.

Student funding routes: Chinese nationals should check the CSC-UCD scheme for eligibility (CSC funding details, opens every January). Other applicants can review UCD scholarship options (UCD scholarships). We are always open to applications from international schemes (MSCA, RI, Erasmus) that look to include Marco as supervisor.

We will soon be recruiting research assistants and postdoctoral researchers; roles will be announced via the News section and shared on LinkedIn/X.