Robin Augustine

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering; Integrated Smart Systems Technology

Telephone:: +46 18 471 72 34
Mobile phone:: +46 76 397 87 38
E-mail:: robin.augustine@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångström, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
752 37 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 65
751 03 UPPSALA

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Associate Professor in Medical Engineering, Head of the MMG group at the FTE Div. PI of VR project Osteodiagnosis 2017, VR MuSkeldiagnosis 2024, Co-PI of SSF LifeSec, SSF Zero-IoT, SSF BOS, VR Back Scatter 2023 and R&D lead of Eurostars SenseBurn, MAS, COMFORT, DIAMPS. WPL of H2020 RIA SINTEC 2019, PERSIMMON 2024. PI of Vinnova project BDAS, Fat-IBPT and AI-DARDS. PI of H2020 FET OPEN project B-CRATOS. We develop biophys-sensors, actuators, in/on-body comms systems .

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Robin Augustine, Ph.D. (Member, IEEE) is an associate professor in Medical Engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics and Optic Systems from Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, a Master’s in Electronics with Robotics Specialization from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India, and a Bachelor's in Electronics Science from Mahatma Gandhi University, India. His doctoral thesis focused on electromagnetic modeling of human tissues and antenna-human body interaction in the BAN context. He 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, Chairperson, and CTO of Probingon AB, a Swedish Medtech company, and leads the Microwaves at the Medical Engineering Group (MMG) comprised of 4 PhD students 6 senior researchers and a project manager. His research contributions span biomedical engineering, microwave technology, non-invasive physiological sensing, biomechatronics, and IoT, with involvement in multiple high-impact projects, including the EU Project SINTEC, SSF Framework Grants LifeSec and Zero-IoT, and the Horizon 2020 FETOPEN Science Excellence Project B-CRATOS. He has led Vinnova and Eurostars-funded projects in skin cancer diagnostics, biomedical sensors, and human-machine interfaces. He has presented at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and has authored over 250 publications, holding five patents. He has been invited and plenary speaker in several IEEE conferences across Europe and Asia. Has pioneered the concept of human body-centric communication known as Fat-IBC. He is an active member of IEEE.