Marco Vinicio Alban-Paccha, PhD, MEng, FHEA
BDIC Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Electronic Engineering, Principal Investigator
Systems co-design for wearable and implantable medical devices
Marco is an Assistant Professor for the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at 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 at the University of Cambridge on the ADVANTAGE consortium for visceral pain (2022–2025), an 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).
