Academy of Inventors. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and serves on the program committees of several technical conferences. His recent TEDx talk 'Analog Supercomputers: From Quantum Atom to Living Body' summarizes some of his unique and interdisciplinary research . His invited Google Tech talk at the 2011 Frontiers of Engineering Conference, hosted by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) summarizes his earlier work on an ultra low power programmable analog cochlear implant processor and other ultra-low-power implantable devices . Education Sarpeshkar received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ph.D. degree in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology. His adviser at Caltech was Carver A. Mead. He was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in its Department of Biological Computation within its Physics Division. References External links Analog Supercomputers:From Quantum Atom to Living Body TEDx Video Cell Power Thomas E. Kurtz Chair Analog Circuits and Biological Systems Group Analog Synthetic Biology Glucose Powered Medical Implants receives wide media attention Professor Sarpeshkar's book Transistors Mimick Cells MIT news article. Cytomorphic Electronics MIT news article. RF Cochlea MIT news release on the RF Cochlea that led to several other news articles. American bioengineers American electronics engineers 21st-century American physicists Living people Synthetic biologists Year of birth missing (living people)