Nicole McFarlane is currently  the TCE Advance Professor and an  Associate  Professor with  the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at The  University  of  Tennessee, Knoxville TN. She received the  B.S.  and  M.S.  degrees  from  Howard  University,  Washington,  DC,  USA, in   2001   and   2003   respectively,   and   the   Ph.D.  from  the  University   of   Maryland,   College   Park,   in   2010.              Her research experience includes III–V-nitrides, information  and  power  efficiency  tradeoffs  in  mixed-signal integrated   circuit   design,   CMOS  biosensors,   and CMOS/MEMS  integration  for  lab-on-a-chip  technologies.  She  is currently  involved  in  developing smaller  and  more  efficient  circuits  and  devices  for  sensing  systems.  Her research  group uses  mixed signal VLSI to work on integrated  smart  sensors,  hardware  security  and encryption, and device nanofabrication  for applications in portable, wearable, and implantable  sensing, environmental  monitoring,  and nuclear  science and has published numerous papers on these topics.  She is an associate editor for Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS) and the Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS), a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Board of Governors (2018-2020 term) where she is Chair of the CASS Society Digital Communication Ad-Hoc Committee and a member of the Women in CAS – Young Professionals (WiCAS-YP) Steering Committee.