IEEE IMAS 2026 Invited Speakers

Hadi Heidari is Professor of Nanoelectronics and an EPSRC Open Fellow in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow.

He is the CTO and Co-founder of Neuranics, a deep-tech semiconductor company building next-generation magnetic sensors for wearable neural interfaces and consumer extended-reality applications.

His research spans integrated magnetic sensors, wearable biomedical microsystems, and human–machine interfaces, and he has led multiple EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU, and ARIA projects, authoring 300+ peer-reviewed publications.

He has received multiple awards, including the IET Healthcare Technologies JA Lodge Award and the IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award.

This talk discusses the emergence of wearable magnetic sensing as a transformative modality for next-generation health monitoring and consumer electronics, offering capabilities that complement the antenna-based wearable systems.

Recent advances from Neuranics, a deeptech company commercialising wearable magnetic sensors for healthcare and extended reality, are presented, with a focus on ultra-sensitive Tunnelling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors integrated with custom CMOS readout ASICs to detect the minute biomagnetic fields generated by the human heart and muscles, as sensed through clothing and skin.

The co-design of TMR stacks, low-noise front-end electronics, and noise-cancellation architectures is examined, through which magnetocardiography (MCG) and magnetomyography (MMG) can be enabled outside shielded environments, opening the door to continuous, body-worn cardiac and neuromuscular monitoring as well as natural human-machine interaction in consumer wearables and extended-reality (XR) devices.

Device-level characterisation, system-level integration into compact wristband and patch form factors, and early demonstrations of real-time signal acquisition on human subjects are also covered. The talk is concluded with a perspective on how wearable magnetic sensing systems are positioned within the broader landscape of consumer wearables and wireless health-monitoring platforms, and on the route toward scalable translation, including manufacturability, low-power readout, packaging, and seamless integration into consumer wearables.