Laxmeesha Somappa

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay

About


I am an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Mumbai.

I received my B.E degree from NMAMIT in 2011, where I worked on Power Electronics-based Embedded Systems design. I followed up with a stint at Tata Elxsi Limited, Bangalore in the Systems Business Unit (SBU), where I worked on analog layouts for audio ASICs and IO driver design. I was briefly associated with Qualcomm Bangalore in the Memory IP team till 2013. In 2015, I received my M.Tech degree in Microelectronics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, where I worked on ONFi 4.0 compliant hardware design for Flash Memory. In 2018 and 2019, I was a short-term visiting scholar at the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK, where I worked on high-resolution MEMS interfaces and readout circuits. I obtained my PhD from IIT Bombay in 2021 where I worked towards multiple ASIC realizations of sub-nano Watt power delta sigma ADCs for biomedical applications. From March 2021, I was associated with the Centre for Neuroprosthetics (currently Neuro-X) at Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland.

I am an active IEEE member, participating in the IEEE CAS Society and the Sensors Council. I am the principal investigator for the BioNICS group at IIT Bombay and currently manage the PCB lab at IIT Bombay.

My research interests are broadly on the low-frequency/biomedical analog and digital IC design and embedded systems. Specifically, I work on the following research areas:

  • Analog, Digital and Mixed-Signal IC Design
  • Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • Neuromodulation System on Chips
  • Oversampled (Delta-Sigma) Data Converters
  • MEMS Interface & Readout Circuits & Systems
  • Sensor Interface Circuits & Sensor networks