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. Since 1999, he has been on the faculty of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department where he heads a research group on Analog VLSI and Biological Systems. He has received several awards including the Packard Fellow award given to outstanding young faculty, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, and the Indus Technovator Award. He holds over twenty patents and has authored more than 70 publications including one that was featured on the cover of NATURE. He has given over 100 invited lectures. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transcations on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He has received the Junior Bose award and the Ruth and Joel Spira award for excellence in teaching at MIT. His research interests include analog and mixed-signal VLSI, biomedical systems, ultra low power circuits and systems, biologically inspired circuits and systems, molecular biology, neuroscience, and control theory.

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