Ada Poon

Ada Poon is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. She is the principal investigator of Stanford Integrated Biomedical Systems Lab.^[1][2]

Ada Poon
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (PhD and MS), University of Hong Kong (BEng)
Known for	Bioelectronics, wireless powering, wireless communication, integrated circuits, electromagnetics
Awards	2010 Okawa Foundation Research Grant, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Award
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Thesis	Use of spatial dimension for spectrum sharing
Doctoral advisor	Robert W. Brodersen

Education, Career and Research

Ada Poon completed her undergraduate study in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Hong Kong. She completed her M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees from the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley, supervised by Robert W. Brodersen.^[3]

In 2005, she joined her advisor's startup company, SiBeam Inc. In 2006, she joined the faculty of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been faculty at Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering since 2008.

Dr. Poon's research is in integrated biomedical systems. Her research is focused on discovering ways to extremely miniaturize electronic devices such pacemaker, neuromodulators, and artificial pancreas so that they can be seamlessly implanted into patients with minimal invasiveness to provide targeted therapy for individuals.^[1][4]

As of July 2019, Ada Poon has been granted approximately 11 patents.^[5]