dr. T. Costa

Assistant Professor
Bioelectronics (BE), Department of Microelectronics

Expertise: Analog and mixed-signal circuit design, Microfabrication, Microsystem Integration, Focused ultrasound neuromodulation, Neuroelectronics, Brain stimulation.

Themes: Lab-on-a-chip, Analog and Mixed-Mode Integrated Circuits and Systems, Biosignal acquisition, conditioning and processing, Electroceuticals, Flexible implants, Microsystem integration, Neuroprosthetics, - stimulation and -modulation

Biography

Tiago Costa (S’10-M’15) was born in Torres Vedras, Portugal, in 1985. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in electronic engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. (cum laude) in electrical and computer engineering from the same university, in 2014. His PhD research was developed in the signal processing group at INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2015 he joined the Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory at Columbia University, USA, as a postdoctoral research scientist. Since October 2019, he has been an assistant professor in the Bioelectronics section at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

His research group addressed the demanding challenges of ultrasound neuromodulation. The emerging field of ultrasound neuromodulation is pushing the boundaries in the broad ultrasound research field regarding focal precision, miniaturization, and power efficiency. By exploring his multi-disciplinary expertise in analog and mixed-signal circuit design, microfabrication, and microsystem integration, he is developing the next generation of ultrasound neuromodulation devices for in vitro mechanism studies, in vivo preclinical research, and clinical translation.

EE4555 Active implantable biomedical microsystems

Cardiac pacemakers, cochlear implants, neuroprostheses, brain–computer interfaces, deep organ pressure sensors, precise drug delivery units, bioelectronic medicine and electroceuticals

ET4127 Themes in biomedical electronics

BioMEMS, biosensors, bioelectronics, ultrasound, microfluidics, wavefield imaging in monitoring, diagnosis and treatment

ET4130 Bioelectricity

Bioelectric phenomena, their sources and their mathematical analysis. Applications to neurostimulation and neuroprosthetic.

ET4369 Nyquist-rate data converters

Architectures for Nyquist-rate ADCs

TM12003 Electrostimulation of Neurophysiological systems

Education history

EE1C31 Amplifiers and instrumentation

(not running) This course introduces the basics of electronic circuits for processing and amplification of information-carrying signals, and the basics of electronic instrumentation.

Projects history

A Brain-on-Chip Platform for Focused Ultrasonic Stimulation

We intend to develop an innovative brain-on-chip platform to decode the mechanisms underlying ultrasonic neu-romodulation.

PMUT and CMUT Devices for Biomedical Applications: A Review
Elisabetta Moisello; Lara Novaresi; Eshani Sarkar; Piero Malcovati; Tiago L. Costa; Edoardo Bonizzoni;
IEEE Access,
2024. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3359906
An Acoustically Transparent Electrical Cap for Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers on Silicon
Gandhika Wardhana; Tiago L. Costa; Massimo Mastrangeli;
Proceedings,
Volume 97, Issue 1, pp. 50, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2024097050
Feasibility Study for a High-Frequency Flexible Ultrasonic Cuff for High-Precision Vagus Nerve Ultrasound Neuromodulation
Cornelis van Damme; Gandhika K. Wardhana; Andrada Iulia Velea; Vasiliki Giagka; Tiago L. Costa;
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control,
Volume 71, Issue 7, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2024.3381923
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Ultrasound phased array patch on flexible CMOS and methods for fabricating thereof
Kenneth Shepard; Tiago Costa; Kevin Tien; Chen Shi;
Patent, US11937981B2, 2024.
document
A 2D Ultrasound Phased-Array Transmitter ASIC for High-Frequency US Stimulation and Powering
Hassan Rivandi; Tiago L. Costa;
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE TbioCAS),
2023. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2023.3288891
Hybrid neuroelectronics: towards a solution-centric way of thinking about complex problems in neurostimulation tools
Sofia Drakopoulou; Francesc Varkevisser; Linta Sohail; Masoumeh Aqamolaei; Tiago L. Costa; George D. Spyropoulos;
Frontiers in Electronics,
2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/felec.2023.1250655
Low-cost shaping of electrical stimulation waveforms for bioelectronic medicine with improved efficiency and selectivity
Amin Rashidi; Francesc Varkevisser; Vasiliki Giagka; Tiago L. Costa; Wouter A. Serdijn;
In in Proc. 9th Dutch Biomedical Engineering Conf. (BME) 2023,
January 2023.
document
Multichannel Current-Mode Stimulator with Channel-Specific Regulated Power Supply
Francesc Varkevisser; Tiago L. Costa; Wouter A. Serdijn;
In Proc. 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS),
Toronto, IEEE, 19-21 October 2023.
document
An Energy-Efficient High-Voltage Pulser for High-Frequency Ultrasound Medical Applications
Yidi Xiao; Hassan Rivandi; Tiago L. Costa;
In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE BioCAS),
2023.
Energy efficiency of pulse shaping in electrical stimulation: the interdependence of biophysical effects and circuit design losses
Francesc Varkevisser; Tiago Costa; Wouter Serdijn;
Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express,
Volume 8, Issue 6, 13 September 2022. DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac8c47
document
Electronic Platforms and Signal Processing for Magnetoresistive-Based Biochips
José Germano; Tiago L. Costa; Filipe A. Cardoso; José Amaral; Susana Cardoso; Paulo P. Freitas; Moisés S. Piedade;
Springer, , 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3447-4_20
Stent with Piezoelectric Transducers for High Spatial Resolution Ultrasound Neuromodulation - a Finite Element Analysis
I. Dilevicius; W. A. Serdijn; T. L. Costa;
In proc. 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC),
Glasgow, UK, IEEE, pp. 4966-4969, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871956
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Pre-Filtering of Stimuli for Improved Energy Efficiency in Electrical Neural Stimulation
Francesc Varkevisser; Amin Rashidi; Tiago L. Costa; Vasiliki Giagka; Wouter A. Serdijn;
In Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) 2022,
IEEE, October 2022.
document
Design of a Flexible Transducer Array and Characterisation of Piezoelectric Sensors for Curvature Compensation
Christiaan Boerkamp; Tiago L. Costa; Jovana Jovanova;
In Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS),
2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/SMASIS2022-90707
A Parasitic Resistance Extraction Tool Leveraged by Image Processing
Diogo Dias; João Goes; Tiago L. Costa;
In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS),
2022. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS48785.2022.9937879
Maximization of Transmitted Acoustic Intensity from Silicon Integrated Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers
Gandhika W. Wardhana; Massimo Mastrangeli; Tiago L. Costa;
In IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IEEE IUS),
2022. DOI: 10.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957646
A High-Frequency Beamforming Channel for Ultrasound Stimulation and Ultrasonic Powering
Hassan Rivandi; Ishaan Ghosh; Tiago L. Costa;
In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (IEEE BioCAS),
2022. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS54905.2022.9948550
Application of a sub–0.1-mm3 implantable mote for in vivo real-time wireless temperature sensing
Chen Shi; Victoria Andino-Pavlovsky; Stephen A. Lee; Tiago Costa; Jeffrey Elloian; Elisa E. Konofagou; Kenneth L. Shepard;
Science Advances,
Volume 7, Issue 19, pp. eabf6312, 2021. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf6312
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An Integrated 2D Ultrasound Phased Array Transmitter in CMOS with Pixel Pitch-Matched Beamforming
Tiago Costa; Chen Shi; Kevin Tien; Jeffrey Elloian; Filipe A. Cardoso; Kenneth Shepard;
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
pp. 1, July 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3096722
document
Bidirectional Bioelectronic Interfaces: System Design and Circuit Implications
Y. Liu; A. Urso; Martins da Ponte, Ronaldo; T. Costa; V. Valente; V. Giagka; W.A. Serdijn; T.G. Constandinou; T. Denison;
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine,
Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 30-46, 23 June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2020.2987506
document
A 0.065-mm(3) Monolithically-Integrated Ultrasonic Wireless Sensing Mote for Real-Time Physiological Temperature MonitoringSyst
C. Shi; T. Costa; J. Elloian; Y. Zhang; K.L. Shepard;
IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits,
Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 412-424, June 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2020.2971066.
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Ablation of piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride with a 193 nm excimer laser
J. Elloian; J. Sherman; T. Costa; C. Shi; K. Shepard;
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A,
Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 033202, February 2020. DOI: 10.1116/1.5142494
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A CMOS 2D Transmit Beamformer with Integrated PZT Ultrasound Transducers for Neuromodulation
T. Costa; C. Shi; K. Tien; K.L. Shepard;
In Proc. 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC'2019),
Austin, TX, USA, IEEE, pp. 1-4, 21-24 April 2019. DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2019.8780236
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Monolithic Integration of Micron-scale Piezoelectric Materials with CMOS for Biomedical Applications
C. Shi; T. Costa; J. Elloian; K.L. Shepard;
In Proc. 2018 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM'2018),
San Francisco, CA, USA, IEEE, pp. 4.5.1-4.5.4, Dec. 1-5 2018. DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2018.8614632
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A CMOS Front-End with Integrated Magnetoresistive Sensors for Biomolecular Recognition Detection Applications
Costa, T.; Cardoso, F.A.; Germano, J.; Freitas, P.P.; Piedade, M.S.;
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems,
Volume 11, Issue 5, pp. 988-1000, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2743685
Monolithic device combining CMOS with magnetoresistive sensors
Filipe A. Cardoso; Tiago L. Costa; José Germano; Moisés S. Piedade;
Patent, US9567626B2, 2017.
Semi-quantitative method for streptococci magnetic detection in raw milk
Duarte, C.; Costa, T.; Carneiro, C.; Soares, R.; Jitariu, A.; Cardoso, S.; Piedade, M.; Bexiga, R.; Freitas, P.;
Biosensors,
Volume 6, Issue 2, 2016. DOI: 10.3390/bios6020019
Design and optimization of a CMOS front-end for magnetoresistive sensor based biomolecular recognition detection
Costa, T.; Germano, J.; Piedade, M.S.; Cardoso, F.A.; Freitas, P.P.;
In Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
pp. 2859-2862, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2016.7539189
MagCMOS
Costa, T.; Cardoso, F.A.; Piedade, M.S.; Freitas, P.P.;
In Handbook of Bioelectronics: Directly Interfacing Electronics and Biological Systems,
Cambridge University Press, 2015. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139629539.015
Live demonstration: A CMOS ASIC for precise reading of a Magnetoresistive sensor array for NDT
Caetano, D.M.; Piedade, M.; Graca, J.; Fernandes, J.; Rosado, L.; Costa, T.;
In Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems,
pp. 1906, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2015.7169039
A neuronal signal detector for biologically generated magnetic fields
Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Germano, J.; Amaral, J.; Freitas, P.P.;
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,
Volume 63, Issue 5, pp. 1171-1180, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2296417
Integration of TMR sensors in silicon microneedles for magnetic measurements of neurons
Amaral, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Gaspar, J.; Ferreira, R.; Paz, E.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.P.;
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
Volume 49, Issue 7, pp. 3512-3515, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2013.2239274
Measuring brain activity with magnetoresistive sensors integrated in micromachined probe needles
Amaral, J.; Gaspar, J.; Pinto, V.; Costa, T.; Sousa, N.; Cardoso, S.; Freitas, P.;
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing,
Volume 111, Issue 2, pp. 407-412, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s00339-013-7621-7
CMOS instrumentation system for matrix-based magnetoresistive biosensors
Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Cardoso, F.A.; Freitas, P.P.;
In Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,
pp. 1315-1318, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555626
An instrumentation system based on magnetoresistive sensors for neuronal signal detection
Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Germano, J.; Amaral, J.; Freitas, P.P.;
In Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference,
pp. 1074-1077, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/I2MTC.2013.6555579
Integration of magnetoresistive biochips on a CMOS circuit
Cardoso, F.A.; Costa, T.; Germano, J.; Cardoso, S.; Borme, J.; Gaspar, J.; Fernandes, J.R.; Piedade, M.S.; Freitas, P.P.;
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics,
Volume 48, Issue 11, pp. 3784-3787, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2012.2198449
An ultra-low noise current source for magnetoresistive biosensors biasing
Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Santos, M.;
In 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference: Intelligent Biomedical Electronics and Systems for Better Life and Better Environment, BioCAS 2012 - Conference Publications,
pp. 73-76, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS.2012.6418507
A CMOS circuit for precise reading of matrix addressed magnetoresistive biosensors
Costa, T.; Piedade, M.S.; Fernandes, J.R.;
In 2011 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2011,
pp. 389-392, 2011. DOI: 10.1109/BioCAS.2011.6107809

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