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RLE Professor Rahul Sarpeshkar
named recipient of the 2001 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
in Science and Engineering
Cambridge, MA 11.01.2001
 Professor
Rahul Sarpeshkar of the Research Laboratory of Electronics has been named
a recipient of the prestigious David and Lucille Packard Fellowship in
Science and Engineering. This fellowship program is supported by the
David and Lucille Packard Foundation. Fellowships are awarded to
encourage the nation's most promising new university professors early in
their careers to pursue their science and engineering research with few
funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Professor Sarpeshkar is one of only 24 winners of this fellowship this
year nationwide.
Professor
Sarpeshkar's research group in RLE focuses on low-power analog
Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) systems.
Their current emphasis is on building bionic systems for the deaf and blind, and
biologically-inspired sensor and mixed signal computing systems.
Professor Sarpeshkar's work on the silicon cochlea was inspired by the
biophysics of the human cochlea and is now regarded as the state of the
art in the field. It is being investigated for use in bionic
implants for the deaf, both in his laboratory and by researchers
worldwide. Professor Sarpeshkar has also pioneered the field of
spike-based analog-digital computing, assembling numerous patents in this
area. His work on visual motion sensors resulted in the widest
dynamic range analog VLSI velocity sensor to date.
The Packard
Fellowship will provide support totaling $625,000 to Professor Sarpeshkar
over the next five years, enabling a wide range of innovative work by his
research group.
Professor
Wolfgang Ketterle is a previous RLE recipient of this award.
The David and
Lucille Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard and Lucile
Salter Packard. The Foundation provides grants to nonprofit
organizations in areas such as conservation; population studies; science;
children, families, and communities; the arts; and organizational
effectiveness and philanthropy. |
