BioE Graduate Seminars

About the speaker

Sameer Sonkusale is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University with a joint appointment in the department of Biomedical Engineering and also the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.  He also held a visiting appointment at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and at Brigham and Women's Hospital of the Harvard Medical School for 2011-2012 and 2018-2019. For 2012-2013 Dr. Sonkusale was also the associate dean of graduate education in School of Engineering at Tufts University. Currently Sonkusale directs an interdisciplinary research group Nano Lab with research focus on biomedical micro devices circuits and systems, flexible bioelectronics, point of care diagnostics, precision medicine and CMOS-based instrumentation. 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.
Dr. Sonkusale received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania He has received several awards including the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010. He also received the Acorn Innovation Award from Massachusetts Technology Transfer Office in 2018. He is an alumnus of the National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering meeting in 2015, and the National Academy of Sciences Arab-America Frontiers meeting in 2014 and 2016. Dr. Sonkusale is on the editorial boards of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Journal of Low Power Electronics and Application, Chips, PLoS One, and Electronic Letters.  He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of OSA, MRS, BMES and AAAS.