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Alyosha Molnar received his B.S. in engineering with highest honors from Swarthmore College in 1997. After working as a deckhand on a fishing boat, he joined Conexant Systems Inc. in Newport Beach, CA in 1998. At Conexant, he served as an RFIC design engineer and co-led the design generation of direct conversion GSM transceivers, selling more than 20 million parts to date. Molnar entered graduate school at UC Berkeley in 2001, earning his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003, where he designed an ultra-low power RF transceiver known as “Smart Dust” under Professor Kris Pister. He further joined Frank Werblin’s neurobiology lab, completing his doctoral work in 2007, which focused on dissecting neuronal circuitry in the rabbit retina. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Cornell as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor on November 1, 2022. His interdisciplinary research focuses on integrated circuits, imaging, and neurobiology. His current work includes developing ultraflexible radios and pixel arrays for 3-D imaging, alongside instrumentation for manipulating interconnected neurons.
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