Welcome!

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

I work with the Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems Group @ MIT, run by my supervisor and director of the Microsystem Technology Lab (MTL), Professor Anantha Chandrakasan. My research interests are in the design of energy efficient RF circuits and digital systems for wireless communication applications, particularly using Ultra-wideband (UWB) techniques. Lately, I've been investigating the use of electronic textiles (or eTextiles) for communication in the health care monitoring field.

I am currently being funded through an Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship and NSERC. Previously, I held an MIT Research Assistantships and a Julie Payette NSERC fellowship. I worked in the Microprocessor Technology Lab (also called MTL, oddly enough) at Intel Corporation in the summer of 2008.