Frances Lau
Phone: 650-498-4325 Fax: 650-736-0234 E-mail »
Frances is interested in biomedical circuits and system design. She is developing the front-end circuits and hardware for a breast cancer imaging PET (positron emission tomography) system. She is also designing a mixed-signal front-end integrated circuit (IC) with fast timing capabilities.
Publications
Education
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2007
- B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2005
Honors and Awards
- California Breast Cancer Research Program Dissertation Award
- IEEE Travel Grant 2007 and 2008
- McCormick Travel Grant 2007
- Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship, Stanford University
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Scholarship, University of Toronto
Projects
- Advanced positron emission tomography (PET) system dedicated to breast cancer imaging
- New scintillation light detection concepts for PET
- Advanced time-of-flight (ToF) PET photon detectors
- Modeling, calculation, and simulations of PET physics, components, systems, and phantom/patient studies
- New front-end IC with fast timing for semiconductor photodetectors