Key Research Areas

Biomedical Embedded Systems, Point of care testing devices, non invasive diagnosis, neurostimulation, neurovascular coupling and VLSI architectures.


About

Dr. Shubhajit ROY CHOWDHURY, Ph.D, F.S.A.B., F.A.B.Sc., is currently an Associate Professor at School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi. Previously, he also served as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for VLSI and Embedded Systems Technology, IIIT Hyderabad. He has also taught at Jadavpur University in the capacity of a lecturer from 2006 to 2010. He has also served Visiting Associate Professor at University at Buffalo, USA (2020), as Visiting Scientist in the Indian Statistical Institute (2016). He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member of VLSI Society of India, ACM and a life member of Indian Statistical Institute, Microelectronics Society of India, Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers and Telemedicine Society of India. He received gold medals for B.E. (2004) and M.E. (2006), Altera Embedded Processor Designer Award (2007), 6 best paper awards, IEI Young Engineers’ Award (2012), Young Neurologist's Award (2015) to name a few. He has 100+ international publications, authored six books and book chapters, filed five patents and granted one patent and two copyrights. His research interests span around Biomedical Embedded Systems, Point of care testing devices, non invasive diagnosis, neurostimulation, neurovascular coupling and VLSI architectures.


Recent Publications

1. G. Sharma, A. Bandopadhyay, S. Roy Chowdhury, "A preliminary study to classify Healthy and Lesioned Hemisphere of Ischemic Stroke Patients with Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Technique", Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol 131, No. 4, pp. 199-200, 2020. (IF: 3.614).
2. A. Bandopadhyay, G. Sharma, S. Roy Chowdhury, "Computational analysis of NIRS and BOLD Signal from Neurovascular Coupling with Three Neuron-System Feedforward Inhibition Network", Journal of Theoretical Biology, Accepted for publication, 2020. (IF: 2.327).
3. G. Sharma, R. Kumar, S. Roy Chowdhury, "Fabrication of Dual Purpose Spiking Electrode for Sensing Electroencephalogram Signal and High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 1664-1671, 2020. (IF: 3.076).
4. Y. Arora, S. Ramasahayam, S. Roy Chowdhury, "An Optimal Reflection Photoplethysmographic Sensor System based on Skin Optics", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 18, No. 17, 2018. (IF: 3.076).
5. S. Dagar, S. Roy Chowdhury, S. BapiRaju, A. Dutta, D. Roy, "Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) - electroencephalography (EEG) based brain-state dependent electrotherapy (BSDE): A computational approach based on excitation-inhibition balance hypothesis", Frontiers in Neurology, Vol. 7:123, pp. 1-14, 2016. (IF: 3.552)."


Course Taught

1. Embedded Systems (M.Tech M.S. Ph.D)
2. Biomedical Systems (Ph.D M.S. M.Tech B.Tech)
3. Computer Organization (B.Tech)
4. Digital Systems Design (B.Tech)
5. Design Practicum (B.Tech)
6. Digital VLSI Architectures (B.Tech M.Tech M.S. Ph.D)
7. CMOS Digital VLSI practicum (M.Tech)
8. Applied Electronics Lab (B.Tech)