Jonathan Erickson

Erickson’s courses include Physics and Perception of Music, Electronics, and Bioengineering and Bioinspired Design. His research interests include biomedical signal processing for gastrointestinal electrical activity patterns. In his Bioelectronics Lab, students develop electronics hardware and software algorithms to measure dynamic patterns of electrical activity in the gastrointestinal tract.

Jonathan Erickson

Jonathan Erickson

Professor of Physics and Engineering

Curriculum VitaeWebsite

Jon Erickson teaches courses in circuits, electronics, signal processing, bioinspired and engineering design. He is interested in interdisciplinary research problems at the interface of engineering, physics, and biology. Jon also serves as the faculty adviser for the Engineering Community Development student club.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Bioengineering - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA
  • M.S. in Aeronautics - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA
  • B.S. in Physics - Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA

Teaching

  • ENGN/PHYS 207 – Electrical Circuits
  • ENGN/PHYS 208 – Electronics
  • ENGN/PHYS 225 - Math Methods for Physics and Engineering
  • ENGN/BIOL 267 – Bioengineering and Bioinspired Design
  • ENGN 379 – Capstone Design
  • ENGN 395 – Applied Signal Processing
  • PHYS/MUS 102 – Physics of Music
  • ENGN/PHYS 421/422/423 – Directed Individual Research
  • ENGN/PHYS 493 – Honors Thesis

Selected Publications

  • Erickson J, Bruce L*, Taylor A*, Higgins C*, Richman J*, Wells C, and O’Grady G. (2019) Electrocolonography: Non-invasive detection of colonic cyclic motor activity from multielectrode body surface recordings, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Engn.; 67(6): 1628 -1637. [doi: 10.1109/TBME.2019.2941851]

  • Erickson J, Hayes J*, Bustamanate M*, Joshi R*, Rwagaju A*, Paskaranandavadivel N, and Angeli TR. (2018) Intsy: a low-cost, open-source, wirelessly multi-channel bioamplifier system, Physiol. Meas.; 39: 035008. [doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/aaad51]

  • O’Grady G, Angeli TR, Paskaranandavadivel N, Erickson J, Wells C, Gharibans AA, Cheng LK, and Du P. (2018) Methods for high-resolution electrical mapping in the gastrointestinal tract, IEEE Rev. Biomed. Engn.; 12: 287-302 [doi: 10.1109/RBME.2018.2867555]

  • Erickson J, Putney J*, Hilbert D*, O’Grady G, Cheng LK, and Angeli TR. (2016) Iterative Covariance-based Removal of Time-Synchronous Artifacts: Application to Gastrointestinal Electrical Recordings, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 63(11): 2262-2272. [doi: 10.1109/TBME.2016.2521764]

  • Erickson J, Bustamante M*, Herrera M*, Shingiro A*, and Bowen T*. (2015) Effective Stimulus Parameters for Directed Locomotion in Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Biobot. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134348 [doi: 10.137/journal.pone.0134348]

*denotes undergraduate student co-author