Dr. Robin Augustine

Biography

Robin Augustine, Ph.D. (Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor of Medical Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics Optic Systems from Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, and a Master’s degree in Electronics with a Robotics Specialization from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, along with a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Science from Mahatma Gandhi University, India. His doctoral thesis focused on electromagnetic modeling of human tissues and antenna-human body interactions within a Body Area Network (BAN) context. Dr. Augustine has served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Rennes 1, France, and has been a Senior Researcher at Uppsala University since 2011. He is the Founder and Chairperson of Probingon AB, a Swedish Medtech company, and leads the Microwaves Medical Engineering Group (MMG), which includes four PhD students and six senior researchers. His research contributions cover biomedical engineering, microwave technology, non-invasive physiological sensing, biomechatronics, and IoT. He has been involved in multiple high-impact projects, such as the EU Project SINTEC and various SSF Framework Grants. Dr. Augustine has authored 250 publications and holds five patents, and he has been a plenary speaker at IEEE conferences in Europe and Asia. He pioneered the concept of human body-centric communication known as Fat-IBC and is an active member of the IEEE.

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