Deblina Sarkar

Deblina Sarkar is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Career Development Chair Professor at MIT Media Lab. She is also the founder of Cahira Technologies Inc which builds autonomous and surgery-free brain-computer interfaces. Her research fuses engineering, applied physics, and biology to develop disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and create new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis. Her inventions include, among others, autonomous and non-surgical brain implant, bioelectronic technology to treat drug-resistant brain cancer, a 6-atom thick channel quantum-mechanical transistor overcoming fundamental power limitations, an ultra-sensitive label-free biosensor, technology that reveals previously undiscovered biological nanostructures and ultra-miniaturized antenna that can work wirelessly even from inside a living cell.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including Innovative Young Engineer Recognition from National Academy of Engineers, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the highest and rarely achieved impact score from NIH, the MIND Prize , the Science News 10 Scientists to Watch, the Distinguished Scientist Award, the NSF CAREER Award and others. [email protected]