Rahul Bhattacharyya

Background and Experience

Dr. Rahul Bhattacharyya is currently the Director of the Auto-ID Labs at MIT and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of RFID and IEEE Sensors Journal. He also served as the TPC Chair of IEEE RFID 2018-19 and the 4th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2014) at MIT. He was also the Guest Editor for a special issue on the Internet of Things for the IEEE Transactions on Automotive Science and Engineering. 

Dr. Bhattacharyya focuses on the creation of reliable, high utility data for applications where sensing technology either does not exist or is too expensive to be deployed at scale. To do this, he either invents new types of sensing hardware, or extend and repurpose data capture hardware, communication networks and protocols, that exist in those applications, in innovative cost-saving ways. In the process, he also develop data analytics and visualization techniques that help people perceive the world around them. Bhattacharyya works at the interface of interface of analog RF, low-cost manufacturing, materials engineering, and data science.

Dr. Bhattacharyya has a PhD in Systems Engineering from MIT.