Virgilio Valente

Dr. Virgilio Valente serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering within Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. His research focuses on miniaturized wireless medical sensors for continuous remote health monitoring and future autonomous microintervention systems.

His educational background includes a BSc from the University of York (2004), MSc from Aalborg University (2006), and PhD from University College London (2011). Research interests span bioelectronics, biotelemetry, Bio-MEMS, analog/mixed-mode IC design, and wireless biosensors, with emphasis on enabling continuous health monitoring and targeted therapies through grain-of-rice-scale autonomous systems.

His recent publications reveal strong focus on wireless power transfer, implantable sensor interfaces, and energy-efficient circuit design for biomedical applications, with consistent contributions to IEEE journals on biotelemetry systems and microelectronics. Research trends show progression from fundamental circuit design toward integrated bidirectional bioelectronic interfaces.

• Senior Member, IEEE (2020)
• EPSRC i-sense Mobility Fellowship (2016)
• Best Poster Award, UCL Cullen Prize (2008)

Actively supervises graduate students in biomedical engineering research, teaching courses including EES 604 (Electronics and Sensors) and BME 804 (Design of Bio-MEMS). Serves on IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee and as Track Chair for IEEE APCCAS 2019. His lab (WisLab) develops wireless biosensors for remote diagnostics and microintervention systems, with vision toward autonomous in-body therapies for controlled drug release and microsurgery.