Rahul Sarpeshkar obtained Bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics at MIT. After completing his PhD at Caltech, he joined Bell Labs as a member of technical staff in the department of Biological Computation within its Physics division. He is currently an associate professor in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department where he heads a research group on Analog Circuits and Biological Systems. He holds over twenty five patents and has authored more than 100 publications including one featured on the cover of NATURE. His work on the RF Cochlea, a rapid radio-frequency spectrum analyzer inspired by the human ear, has established an important bridge between radio-frequency circuit design and hearing. His invention of cytomorphic electronics, described in his recent book, has established an important bridge between electronics and chemistry and lays a foundation for an analog circuits approach to systems biology and synthetic biology. Professor Sarpeshkar's book Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems was the top seller at the February 2010 ISSCC conference, where it was released by Cambridge University Press. He has received several awards including the NSF Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellows Award and the Indus Technovator Award for his interdisciplinary bioengineering research. He has received the Junior Bose award and the Ruth and Joel Spira for excellence in teaching at MIT. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and serves on the program committees of several technical conferences. His invited talk at the 2011 Frontiers of Engineering Conference, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) summarizes his unique and interdisciplinary bioengineering research.

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