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Professor Sarpeshkar's interdisciplinary research uses analog circuits and analog computation as a universal language to design advanced quantum, bio-molecular, and nano-electronic circuits and systems, from atom to living cell. These systems are experimentally implemented in living synthetic microbial DNA-RNA-protein circuits in his wet lab, and in nano-electronic supercomputing chips that simulate biological and quantum computation in his dry lab. They also aid in the design of novel superconducting or NMR dynamical systems. Many common circuit themes in analog, physical, and biological computation include noise and thermodynamics, fault tolerance, feedback control, back action and loading, entanglement and correlation, precision measurement, nonlinear dynamics, robustness-efficiency tradeoffs, scalability, and hybrid quantum-classical operation. Professor Sarpeshkar recently filed four important patents on quantum computation with analog circuits and has just been elected to the National Academy of Inventors.
R. Sarpeshkar, "Analog Synthetic Biology," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 372: 20130110, 2014.
S.S. Woo, J. Kim, and R. Sarpeshkar, "A Digitally Programmable Cytomorphic Chip for Simulation of Arbitrary Biochemical Reaction Networks," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 2018.
J. Kim, S.S. Woo, and R. Sarpeshkar, "Fast and Precise Emulation of Stochastic Biochemical Reaction Networks With Amplified Thermal Noise in Silicon Chips," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 2, February 2018.
J. Teo, R. Weiss, and R. Sarpeshkar, "An Artificial Tissue Homeostasis Circuit Designed Via Analog Circuit Techniques", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, in press, July 2019.
Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body | Rahul Sarpeshkar | TEDxDartmouth
BOOKS
Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems, Rahul Sarpeshkar, Cambridge University Press, 2010
AWARDS
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
NSF CAREER Award
ONR Young Investigator Award
Packard Fellow Award
Junior Bose Teaching Award, MIT
NEWS
Award-Winning Scientist to Be First Faculty Cluster Chair, Dartmouth Now, July 7, 2015
R. Sarpeshkar, “Emulation of Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Spectrum Analysis and Superposition with Classical Transconductor-Capacitor Circuits”, U.S. Patent 10,204,199 B2, Issued Feb. 12, 2019.
R. Sarpeshkar, “Quantum Cochlea for Efficient Spectrum Analysis”, U.S. Patent 10,248,748, B2, Issued Apr. 2, 2019.
R. Sarpeshkar, “Emulation of Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Discrete-State Systems with Classical Transconductor-Capacitor Circuits”, U.S. Patent 10,275,556 B2, Issued Apr. 30, 2019.
R. Sarpeshkar, “Emulation of Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Dynamical Systems with Classical Transconductor-Capacitor Circuits”, U.S. Patent 10,769,338 B2, Issued Sep. 8, 2020.