Prof. Sameer R Sonkusale is a Professor of Electrical Engineering with a joint appointment (courtesy) of Biomedical Engineering and also Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University. For the year 2011-2012 and 2018-2019 he was also a visiting faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was also a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Prof. Sonkusale received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Jan Van der Spiegel where he worked on pipeliend analog to digital converters for his doctoral dissertation. He was co-advised by Dr. K. Nagaraj from Texas Instruments and by Prof. Ken Laker at University of Pennsylvania. His undergraduate degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani), India. .
Prof. Sonkusale's teaching and research interests are in the area of flexible bioelectronics, biomedical micro- and nanodevices, lab-on-chip systems, nanoscale sensors, low power integrated circuits, analog to information converters, and active metamaterials for terahertz applications. The technologies developed in his labs have been licensed to several companies and have resulted in creation of several startups. Several national and international media (Forbes, Economist, Wall Street Journal, STAT News, Fast Company, Telegraph UK, National Public Radio-NPR, BBC Radio, WBUR radio, ABC News-TV, IEEE Spectrum, etc.) have highlighted his work extensively.
Prof. Sonkusale is also passionate about making low cost diagnostics for the developing world and believes strongly in the democratization of science and innovation. He serves on the board of the Science for the Public, a non-profit organization to improve public understanding of, and appreciation for, science.
Prof. Sonkusale received the NSF CAREER award in 2010, the Future Trends in Microelectronics Best poster prize in 2009, and has won several best paper awards with his students at many international conferences (NANO 2008, SENSORS 2008, ISDRS 2009, FTM 2009). In 2020, he also received the best paper award and the highly cited paper award from the journal Nature Microsystems and Nanoengineering. He is a past fellow of NAE Frontiers of Engineering in 2015 and NAS Arab-US Frontiers in Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2014 and 2016.
Prof. Sonkusale serves on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Application, and IET Electronics Letters. He is a past associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems-1, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and a past chair of CAS Biomedical and Lifesciences Technical Commitee. Prof. Sonkusale is a senior member of the IEEE, BMES, OSA, MRS and AAAS.
Prof. Sonkusale received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Jan Van der Spiegel where he worked on pipeliend analog to digital converters for his doctoral dissertation. He was co-advised by Dr. K. Nagaraj from Texas Instruments and by Prof. Ken Laker at University of Pennsylvania. His undergraduate degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani), India. .
Prof. Sonkusale's teaching and research interests are in the area of flexible bioelectronics, biomedical micro- and nanodevices, lab-on-chip systems, nanoscale sensors, low power integrated circuits, analog to information converters, and active metamaterials for terahertz applications. The technologies developed in his labs have been licensed to several companies and have resulted in creation of several startups. Several national and international media (Forbes, Economist, Wall Street Journal, STAT News, Fast Company, Telegraph UK, National Public Radio-NPR, BBC Radio, WBUR radio, ABC News-TV, IEEE Spectrum, etc.) have highlighted his work extensively.
Prof. Sonkusale is also passionate about making low cost diagnostics for the developing world and believes strongly in the democratization of science and innovation. He serves on the board of the Science for the Public, a non-profit organization to improve public understanding of, and appreciation for, science.
Prof. Sonkusale received the NSF CAREER award in 2010, the Future Trends in Microelectronics Best poster prize in 2009, and has won several best paper awards with his students at many international conferences (NANO 2008, SENSORS 2008, ISDRS 2009, FTM 2009). In 2020, he also received the best paper award and the highly cited paper award from the journal Nature Microsystems and Nanoengineering. He is a past fellow of NAE Frontiers of Engineering in 2015 and NAS Arab-US Frontiers in Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2014 and 2016.
Prof. Sonkusale serves on the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Application, and IET Electronics Letters. He is a past associate editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems-1, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and a past chair of CAS Biomedical and Lifesciences Technical Commitee. Prof. Sonkusale is a senior member of the IEEE, BMES, OSA, MRS and AAAS.