Kaushik Sengupta, whose research advances microchips at the cutting edge of wireless and medical technology, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a distinction recognizing contributions with significant value to society.
Sengupta, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recognized for “contributions to millimeter-Wave and terahertz technology in silicon-based integrated circuits,” the Institute said in the announcement of this year’s fellows. His research into technologies that use the terahertz band, with its tremendously high frequencies, has helped usher that spectrum into consideration for next-generation wireless networks. Sengupta is also a director and co-founder of Princeton’s program in advanced communications technology, the Next-G Initiative, which launched in 2023.
Sengupta’s lab pioneers integrated circuits and systems to drive transformative impacts in the future of communication and sensing technologies. His work covers a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. In addition to his work with millimeter-Wave and terahertz signals, he has developed nano-optical chips for bio-molecular sensing. His lab’s methodologies are often drawn across several layers of system abstraction, from the physics of electromagnetic field interactions to new mathematical principles that attempt to break many of the conventionally accepted trade-offs. Recently, Sengupta’s team demonstrated approaches that harness artificial intelligence to discover new wireless chip topologies and capabilities while reducing highly specialized design time from weeks to hours.
Sengupta has been a distinguished lecturer for both IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society, receiving the New Frontiers Award in 2021 and Outstanding Young Engineer in 2022 from these two societies, respectively. He has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a Bell Labs Prize, a Young Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater IIT Kharagpur, and an E. Lawrence Keys, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Award from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Sengupta joined the Princeton faculty in 2013 after completing his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. He was promoted to full professor in 2023.
