Welcome!

My name is Patrick Mercier, and I am a Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Microsystems Technology Lab (MTL). I received my S.M. degree from MIT in 2008 and my B.Sc. degree from the University of Alberta in 2006.

I currently work with the Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems Group @ MIT, run by my supervisor and current EECS department head, Professor Anantha Chandrakasan. My main research interests involve the design of systems for uniquely specified biomedical applications. Typically, such systems have severe size (and as a result, energy) constraints that require aggressive algorithmic, system-level, and circuit-level co-optimizations. In many cases, simply changing the use-case at the system level bestows unique opportunities for significant reductions in overall system energy consumption. In brief specifics, I have worked on miniaturized biologically integrated energy harvesters, ultra-efficient radios and eTextiles for body-area networks, and digital back-end modem design. Please visit my research page for full publication details.

While at MIT, I have been funded by an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship, a Julie Payette NSERC scholarship, and research and teaching assistantships. I was a co-recipient of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper in 2010, and I worked in the Microprocessor Technology Lab (also called MTL, oddly enough) at Intel Corporation in the summer of 2008.