Prior to joining CIRA, Mr. Egbert served as an Intelligence Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency on the China Technology Transfer team of the Technology Warning Division. Mr. Egbert has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Korean, both from Brigham Young University. He has completed a number of professional education courses on radar and electronic warfare systems at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He served as a church missionary for two years in South Korea's Gyeongsang Province. Concurrent with his work at CIRA, Rob is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Publications include:

Articles:

"Design techniques for self-powered Microsystems," with Otis, B.; Haq, S.; Holleman, J.; Hu, J.; Liao, Y.; Pandey, J.; Rai, S.; and Zhang, F. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2009.

"Current-block nanoelectrode array for label-free detection of proteins and short DNA strands," with Jianchun Dong; and Parviz, B.A. Sixth IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2006), June 2006.