Rahul Sarpeshkar

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Rahul Sarpeshkar is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Sarpeshkar received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1997. His adviser at Caltech was Carver A. Mead. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs in its division of Biological Computation. He has been on the faculty at MIT since 1999.

His current research group is known as the Analog VLSI and Biological Systems Group [1] and is part of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. His primary research interests are in the areas of

Ultra-low-power electronics
Analog & mixed-signal processing
Bio-inspired systems
Biomedical systems
Molecular biology
Neuroscience
Control theory

Professor Sarpeshkar's work on a hybrid analog-digital circuit that mimics feedback networks in the brain has appeared on the cover of Nature and received wide media attention. His work on an analog bionic ear processor for the deaf has had wide impact and been featured in articles in the New York Times, Technology Review, and IEEE Spectrum. He has authored more than 70 technical publications and is an inventor on more than twenty patents. He has received several awards including the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellows Award and the Indus Technovator Award. His course, 6.376, is the highest rated graduate circuits course at MIT. He has received the Junior Bose Award and Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching at MIT. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.