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Kara Bocan

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Hwang, S.I., Chen, H.Y., Fenk, C., Rothfuss, M.A., Bocan, K.N., Franconi, N.G., Morgan, G.J., White, D.L., Burkert, S.C., Ellis, J.E., Vinay, M.L., Rometo, D.A., Finegold, D.N., Sejdic, E., Cho, S.K., & Star, A. (2021). Breath Acetone Sensing Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube-Titanium Dioxide Hybrids Enabled by a Custom-Built Dehumidifier. ACS SENSORS, 6(3), 871-880.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01973.

Hwang, S.I., Franconi, N.G., Rothfuss, M.A., Bocan, K.N., Bian, L., White, D.L., Burkert, S.C., Euler, R.W., Sopher, B.J., Vinay, M.L., Sejdic, E., & Star, A. (2019). Tetrahydrocannabinol Detection Using Semiconductor-Enriched Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Chemiresistors. ACS SENSORS, 4(8), 2084-2093.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acssensors.9b00762.

Bocan, K.N., Mickle, M.H., & Sejdic, E. (2018). Simulating, Modeling, and Sensing Variable Tissues for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, 66(7), 3547-3556.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2811497.

Rothfuss, M.A., Franconi, N.G., Bocan, K.N., Unadkat, J.V., Gimbel, M.L., Mickle, M.H., & Sejdic, E. (2018). Implantable Energy Harvesting Stents for Transcutaneous Wireless Monitoring of Peripheral Artery Disease. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 18(5), 2077-2090.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2787498.

Sayed, K., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2018). Automated Extension of Cell Signaling Models with Genetic Algorithm. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 00, 5030-5033.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/embc.2018.8513431.

Bocan, K.N., Mickle, M.H., & Sejdic, E. (2017). Multi-Disciplinary Challenges in Tissue Modeling for Wireless Electromagnetic Powering: A Review. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 17(20), 6498-6509.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2748338.

Bocan, K.N., Mickle, M.H., & Sejdic, E. (2017). Tissue Variability and Antennas for Power Transfer to Wireless Implantable Medical Devices. IEEE JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL ENGINEERING IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE, 5, 1-11.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2723391.

Bocan, K.N., & Sejdic, E. (2016). Adaptive Transcutaneous Power Transfer to Implantable Devices: A State of the Art Review. SENSORS, 16(3), 393.MDPI. doi: 10.3390/s16030393.

Gou, P., Kraut, N.D., Feigel, I.M., Bai, H., Morgan, G.J., Chen, Y., Tang, Y., Bocan, K., Stachel, J., Berger, L., Mickle, M., Sejdic, E., & Star, A. (2014). Carbon Nanotube Chemiresistor for Wireless pH Sensing. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 4(1), 4468.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1038/srep04468.

Sejdic, E., Rothfuss, M.A., Stachel, J.R., Franconi, N.G., Bocan, K., Lovell, M.R., & Mickle, M.H. (2013). Innovation and Translation Efforts in Wireless Medical Connectivity, Telemedicine and eMedicine: A Story from the RFID Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 41(9), 1913-1925.Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/s10439-013-0873-8.

Becker, E.W., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2020). Nested Event Representation for Automated Assembly of Cell Signaling Network Models. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12233, (pp. 480-499).Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54997-8_30.

Gilboy, K., Sayed, K., Sundaram, N., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2019). A Faster DiSH: Hardware Implementation of a Discrete Cell Signaling Simulator. In Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 00, (pp. 2895-2899).Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).United States. doi: 10.1109/embc.2019.8857495.

Telmer, C.A., Sayed, K., Butchy, A., Bocan, K.N., Holtzapple, E., Hansen, C.E., Zhou, G., Ahmed, Y., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2019). Dynamic system explanation. In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse, (pp. 1-10).Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3359115.3359123.

Bocan, K., & Sejdić, E. (2016). Transmission Mechanisms with Variable Tissue Properties in a Paired Electrode System for Transcutaneous Power. In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2016-July, (pp. 2739-2742).Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/iscas.2016.7539159.

Mats, L., Mickle, M.H., Zhou, Z., Stachel, J.R., Bocan, K., Franconi, N.G., Rothfuss, M.R., Berger, L., Butler, T., Ubinger, C., Lauer, S., Sai, V., & Sejdić, E. (2015). A Paradigm Shift in Passive Radio Frequency Identification Tag Development and Manufacturing Flexibility to Provide Active Tag Functionality. In Journal of Low Power Electronics, 11(3), (pp. 323-332).American Scientific Publishers. doi: 10.1166/jolpe.2015.1399.