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Dr. Saroj Rout received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA, where he worked on metamaterials for his doctoral dissertation. He received his Masters and Bachelors in engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. He is a passionate teacher and has taught undergraduate electrical engineering courses at Tufts University and BITS, Pilani. He is an accomplished semiconductor professional with more than 18 years of experience in research and development of more than 10 semiconductor products in the area of communication and navigation. Two of the products have sold more than 1.5 billion units to date. He is the co-inventor of 7 patents in the area of CMOS VLSI design and metamaterials.



He is the founder and principal engineer at Mixignal Innovations LLC, a VLSI circuit design consulting firm which provides turnkey solutions to semiconductor companies. He is also an adjunct professor at Silicon Institute of Technology, India, where he is developing a research center in the area of CMOS analog VLSI design.

Prof. Sameer R Sonkusale is a Professor of Electrical Engineering with a joint appointment (courtesy) of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. Prior to coming to Tufts, he was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx from 2002 to 2004. For the year 2011-2012, he was also a visiting associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Womens Hospital. Prior to an academic career, he worked for Texas Instruments in Bangalore India from 1996-1997. Prof. Sonkusale received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Jan Van der Spiegel where he worked on pipeliend analog to digital converters for his doctoral dissertation. He was co-advised by Dr. K. Nagaraj from Texas Instruments and by Prof. Ken Laker at University of Pennsylvania. His undergraduate