Deblina Sarkar

Associate Professor
Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Technology Areas
Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring, Tissue Repair / Biotechnology: Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring, Prostheses / Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials / Communication Systems: Wireless / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Cell Interrogation / Sensing & Imaging: Imaging
Impact Areas
Healthy Living, Uncharted Frontiers, Advanced Materials

Engineering at the edge of physics, biology, and electronics to create ultra-miniaturized devices that reveal the unseen and treat the untreatable.

Background and Experience

Deblina Sarkar is an associate professor at MIT and AT&T Career Development Chair Professor at MIT Media Lab. She heads the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group. Her group carries out trans-disciplinary research fusing engineering, applied physics, and biology, aiming to bridge the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology to develop disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and create new paradigms for human-machine symbiosis. The two main research directions in her group are:

  1. To develop disruptive technologies for ultra-low power nanoelectronic devices as energy efficient hardware for Artificial Intelligence
  2. To merge such next generation technologies with living-matter to create new paradigm for human-machine symbiosis in order to transform healthcare.

Awards and Honors

  • MIT Technology Review's Top 10 Innovator Under 35 from India | 2018
  • CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering | 2016
  • UCSB Winifred and Louis Lancaster Dissertation Award for Math, Physical Science and Engineering | 2016
  • U.S. Presidential Fellowship | 2008

Technologies

Iterative Direct Expansion Microscopy

Non-Exclusively Licensed Technology / Case number: #20861TEM
Edward Stuart Boyden / Jinyoung Kang / Deblina Sarkar / Asmamaw Wassie
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Drug Discovery and Research Tools / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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