Bozidar got his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Trinity College, Hartford, CT in May 2005. In his undergraduate studies he worked on variety of projects including the design of autonomous ground vehicles with Prof. David J. Ahlgren and digital signal processing with Prof. Taikang Ning. In his senior year he was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. After graduating as a valedictorian from Trinity College, Bozidar started the Ph.D. program at Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University where he got his Masters of Science in December 2006. Currently Bozidar is working in Prof. Koser's MEMS Design and Characterization Group.
The focus of Bozidar’s project is to fully develop and integrate a power harvesting device with a low power wireless sensor node. Currently, the sensor nodes are powered using batteries that are bulky and require multiple replacements to extend the life of the sensor node. This is can be rather difficult and costly job in large sensor networks and the need for more practical power source arises. Making the device that could harvest the energy from the environment and transform it to useful energy for the sensor node would solve this problem by providing an ever lasting energy source for remotely deployed nodes. Recreant advances in fabrications of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) provide great platform for the development of vibration energy harvester which can be unified with integrated circuit (IC) technology to give a self-powered wireless sensor node on sub-centimeter scale. The project involves device design, simulation of mechanical and electrical aspects of the device, fabrication process development, micro-fabrication and the performance analysis.