Three new faculty members joined ECE this spring
Three new faculty members joined ECE this spring
Three new faculty members joined ECE this spring; Benjamin-Sanchez Terrones, Christine McGinn, and Ian Mondragon-Shem.
Benjamin Sanchez-Terrones
Associate Professor Benjamin Sanchez-Terrones’ research is at the intersection of engineering and patient-oriented research. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Sanchez Terrones aims to improve health at large, using new digital health technologies to gain a novel mechanistic understanding of disease. These technologies include point-of-care diagnostic devices that can be used at a patient’s bedside, mobile health technologies, including smartphones and other connected medical devices, to conduct interventional studies at home, and wearables like smartwatches and smart rings.
Sanchez Terrones received BS degrees in electronics engineering and telecommunications engineering and his MS and PhD in electronics engineering, all from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has previously worked as an assistant professor at the University of Utah.
Christine McGinn
Assistant Professor Christine McGinn earned her bachelor of science degrees in physics and engineering from Swarthmore College, where she was a member of the women’s varsity lacrosse team, and her doctoral degree in electrical engineering is from Columbia University, where her research focus included micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), devices that translate electrical energy to mechanical energy, and back. She also conducted material science work with ferroelectric polymers.
Most recently, McGinn served as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission postdoctoral fellow in the Nansoscale Spectroscopy Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At NIST, McGinn focused on spectroscopic and electronic studies of two-dimensional semiconductors and ferroelectric materials. She also served as a workforce development liaison to the CHIPS Act R&D program. At UIC, McGinn expects to continue this research.
Ian Mondragon Shem
Assistant Professor Ian Mondragon Shem’s research interests lie at the intersection of condensed matter theory and quantum information science and engineering. He received his BS in physics from Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, and his doctorate in physics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
Before joining UIC, Mondragon Shem worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University. He was a postdoctoral appointee at Argonne National Laboratory and conducted a postdoctoral prize fellowship at Yale University.
His research interests include superconducting circuits, topological quantum matter, Floquet, and non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, quantum entanglement, and disorder-induced quantum phase transitions.