Shreyas Sen, Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Shreyas Sen, Elmore Associate Professor in Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been named a finalist for the 2023 Misties Awards for the ‘Top 20 Individual Leaders in Intelligent and Connected Devices.’ This recognition is for contemporary inventors, hackers, engineers, product designers, and business leaders who are bringing technological advances to the world.

Sen made the sort list for being “an innovator who has commercialized Wi-R wireless technology, enabling high speed data communication using the human body.” The Top 44 finalists have been nominated by their industry peers. A panel of judges narrows the nominations down to the Top 44, from which they select the 2023 Misties Awards winners. The announcement of the winners will take place June 15 during the Misties Awards Virtual Ceremony.

Sen has more than five years of industry research experience in Intel Labs, Qualcomm and Rambus. His current research interests span mixed-signal circuits/systems and electromagnetics for the Internet of Things (IoT), Biomedical, and Security. Sen has authored/co-authored 3 book chapters, more than 175 journal and conference papers and has 15 patents granted/pending. He serves as the Director of the Center for Internet of Bodies (C-IoB). Sen is the inventor of the Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC), or Body as a Wire technology, for which, he is the recipient of the MIT Technology Review top-10 Indian Inventor Worldwide under 35 (MIT TR35 India) Award. Sen is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2020, AFOSR Young Investigator Award 2016, NSF CISE CRII Award 2017, Intel Outstanding Researcher Award 2020, Google Faculty Research Award 2017, Purdue CoE Early Career Research Award 2021, Intel Labs Quality Award 2012 for industrywide impact on USB-C type, Intel Ph.D. Fellowship 2010, IEEE Microwave Fellowship 2008, GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Research Award 2007, and nine best paper awards including IEEE CICC 2019, 2021 and in IEEE HOST 2017-2020, for four consecutive years. His work was chosen as one of the top-10 papers in the Hardware Security field (TopPicks 2019).