Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Research Associate (Aug. 2009 – Present)

MEMS for Biomedical Applications Lab @ Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

Advisor: Prof. Junseok Chae

Research Assistant (May 2008 – May 2009)

Computational Sensory-Motor Systems Lab @ Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Advisor: Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Undergraduate Research Assistant (Jan. 2006 – May 2009)

Biomedical Instrumentation & Neuroengineering Lab @ Johns Hopkins University

Advisor: Prof. Nitish V. Thakor

NSF Summer Research Fellowship (June 2006 – Aug. 2006)

Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics Lab @ University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Advisor: Prof. Haim H. Bau

EEE 445/591 – Microwaves (Senior / Graduate Level Course)

EEE 341 – Engineering Electromagnetics (Junior Level Course)

(Fellowship renewable up to 3 years cumulative)

H.N. Schwerdt, R. Bristol, and J. Chae, “ Miniaturized Passive Hydrogel Check Valve for Hydrocephalus Treatment, ” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, [available early access online—Nov. 2013].

H.N. Schwerdt, F.A. Miranda, and J. Chae, “Analysis of Electromagnetic Fields Induced in Operation of a Wireless Fully Passive Backscattering Neurorecording Microsystem in Emulated Human Head Tissue,” IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 2170-2176, May 2013.

H.N. Schwerdt, F.A. Miranda, and J. Chae, “A Fully Passive Wireless Backscattering Neuro-Recording Microsystem Embedded in Dispersive Human Head Phantom Medium,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 908-910, June 2012.

H.N. Schwerdt, W. Xu, S. Shekhar, A. Abbaspour-Tamijani, B. Towe, F. Miranda, and J. Chae, “A Fully-Passive Wireless Microsystem for Recording of Neuropotentials using RF Backscattering Methods,” IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 20, no. 5, pp.1119-1130, Oct. 2011.

H.N. Schwerdt, J. Chae, and F.A. Miranda, “Wireless Performance of a Fully Passive Neurorecording Microsystem Embedded in Dispersive Human Head Phantom,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), pp. 1-2, Chicago, IL, July 2012.

H.N. Schwerdt, R. Bristol, and J. Chae, “Hydrogel Check Valve with Non-Zero Cracking Pressure for Use as a Potential Alternative Hydrocephalus Treatment Method,”In IEEE Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, pp. 137-140, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2012.

H.N. Schwerdt, W. Xu, S. Shekhar, F. Miranda, and J. Chae, “Preliminary Thermal Characterization of a Fully-Passive Wireless Backscattering MEMS Neuro-Recorder,” In IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers), pp. 1228-1231, Beijing, China, June 2011.

H.N. Schwerdt, W. Xu, S. Shekhar, A. Abbaspour-Tamijani, B. Towe, and J. Chae, “A Fully-Passive Wireless Microfabricated Neuro-Recorder,” In IEEE Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, pp. 258-259, Hilton Head Island, SC, June 2010.

H.N. Schwerdt, J. Tapson, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “A Color Detection Glove with Haptic Feedback for the Visually Disabled,” In IEEE Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 681-686, Baltimore, MD, May 2009.

M. Mollazadeh, K. Murari, H.N. Schwerdt, X. Wang, N. Thakor, and G. Cauwenberghs, “Wireless Multichannel Acquisition of Neuropotentials,” In IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), pp. 49-52, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2008.