Deblina Sarkar

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Deblina Sarkar
Sarkar in 2018
Born	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad University of California, Santa Barbara
Known for	Ultra thin quantum mechanical transistor (ATLAS-TFET), nanoscale biosensors, expansion microscopy
Awards	2018 MIT Technology Review's Top 10 Innovator Under 35 from India, 2016 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering, 2016 UCSB Winifred and Louis Lancaster Dissertation Award for Math, Physical Science and Engineering, 2008 U.S. Presidential Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Nanoelectronics Neuroscience
Institutions	MIT Media Lab
Thesis	2D Steep Transistor Technology: Overcoming Fundamental Barriers in Low-Power Electronics and Ultra-Sensitive Biosensors (2015)
Doctoral advisor	Kaustav Banerjee

Deblina Sarkar is an electrical engineer,^[1] and inventor.^[2][3] She is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the AT&T Career Development Chair Professor of the MIT Media Lab. Sarkar has been internationally recognized for her invention of an ultra thin quantum mechanical transistor that can be scaled to nano-sizes and used in nanoelectronic biosensors. As the principal investigator of the Nano Cybernetic Biotrek Lab^[4] at MIT, Sarkar leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers towards bridging the gap between nanotechnology and synthetic biology to build new nano-devices and life-machine interfacing technologies with which to probe and enhance biological function.