Brief Biography

Dr. Shantanu Chakrabartty received his B.Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1996 and his M.S and Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD in 2001 and 2004.  He is currently an assistant professor in the department of  electrical and computer engineering at Michigan state university.

From 1996-1999 he was with Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego as an engineer in the network switching subsystems, field engineering and Reliability group in corporate R&D. Dr Chakrabartty was a part of the engineering team that commissioned India's first operational CDMA system with Department of Telecom's full certification. He has also been involved in design and development of SS7 interfaces for Qualcomm's Base Station Controllers. He was a visiting researcher at Department of Informatics, University of Tokyo in 2002 and has been actively involved with joint projects with Center for Language and Speech Processing at JHU and Center for Biological and Computational Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His  research interests include low-power analog and digital VLSI circuits and systems, biometric signal processing and recognition systems, statistical  learning theory, non-linear signal processing, imagers and applications of machine learning to communication systems.

Dr Chakrabartty is a member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and Solid-State Circuits Society and is a  member of  biomedical circuits and systems technical committee and Neural systems and applications technical committee. He was a  Catalyst Foundation Fellow from 1999 to 2004  and was the recipient of Academic Frontiers Student Exchange Program Scholarship from the Japanese Govt. in 2002. His B.Tech project was awarded the best project for the year 1996 and he has also been awarded national  talent scholarship from the Indian government for the year 1990.