Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2020
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 2014
Academic Appointments
  • Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 2016-2017
  • Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2013-2015
Professional Honors
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation, 2015
  • Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Dr. Gomez is trained in electrical engineering with more than a decade of experience in microelectronic systems and technologies. She has a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise that includes sensors, circuits, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), cleanroom fabrication processes, biomedical and microfluidic devices, IoT systems, and micro/nano scale system design, prototyping and testing.

Dr. Gomez has extensive experience designing, prototyping and testing micro systems for IoT, biomedical, and robotic applications. To design such systems, she has worked with various numerical and simulation tools such as Matlab, Coventorware, Fusion360, kLayout, etc. For fabrication and prototyping, Dr. Gomez developed her expertise in micro/nano scale fabrication techniques working in class 100/1000 cleanrooms, including plasma etching, photolithography, and metal deposition (evaporation). Finally, Dr. Gomez has worked with various characterization techniques that range from atomic force microscopes (AFMs) and scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to benchtop electrical and mechanical characterization tools such as probe stations.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Gomez worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, where she led the design, fabrication and development of a high-mass electrostatically levitated MEMS device for accelerometer and gyroscope applications. Before the postdoctoral appointment, she led various interdisciplinary projects as a Senior MEMS Engineer working at Mekonos, Inc., and contributed to the development of their cell-therapy platform by designing and integrating silicon MEMS devices with microfluidic systems and larger scale electronics.

Dr. Gomez's contributions to MEMS, IoT, and micro robotics include developing a novel micro assembly approach that allowed for the seamless integration of MEMS and integrated circuit devices. As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D., Dr. Gomez designed, fabricated, and characterized various complex micro systems that integrated silicon capacitive and strain sensors, silicon micro actuators, integrated circuits, and control architectures.