SPARC Lab News
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(Aug 25)
SparcLab's chip design work is featured as Purdue's Chipshub platform is named the official NSF Chip Design Hub, backed by a $7M grant over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This initiative aims to expand chip design education and research nationwide.
(Read the Announcement)
(Purdue News Spotlight)
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(Aug 25)
Prof. Shreyas Sen attended IEEE SSCS Toronto 2025 and delivered a talk at University of Toronto.
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(Jul 25)
Ixana is featured in the prestigious EETimes Silicon 100 for the third consecutive year (2023, 2024, and 2025), as one of only two companies in the RF/IoT segment.
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(Mar 25)
Ixana showcased live demonstrations of its advanced Wi-R technology and presented two papers (12.2 and 20.11) at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
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(Mar 25)
Ixana presented its Wi-R technology at the US Capitol Hill, highlighting its potential for revolutionizing secure warfighter communication.
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(Jan 25)
Prof. Shreyas Sen and the Ixana team attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, holding numerous meetings with customers and partners over 3 days.
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(Jan 25)
SparcLab has secured a research grant from the
TSMC Center for Secure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME) to advance work on Post-Quantum Cryptography side-channel attacks.
- (Nov 24) Congratulations to Md Faizul Bari on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will be joining Qualcomm as AI Researcher.
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(Aug 24)
Purdue Innovates Ventures has "doubled down" on its investment in Ixana, backing its revolutionary "Body-Internet Platform" technology.
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(Aug 24)
Ixana and its patented Wi-R technology are featured in the Indiana Economic Development Corporation's annual yearbook.
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(Aug 24)
Ixana announces a strategic alliance with OTTO Engineering to revolutionize soldier communications using its game-changing Wi-R technology. (Read the Announcement)
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(Aug 24)
Ixana's Wi-R technology for on-body video streaming, which slashes energy use by 100x compared to Wi-Fi, wins two CES 2024 Innovation Awards. (View Post)
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(Aug 24)
A paper is published in Nature Electronics detailing broadband communication to the brain using Electro-Quasistatic fields for wireless implants. Congratulations to the first author Baibhab Chatterjee. (View Paper)
- (Jul 24) Congratulations to Arunashish Datta on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will be joining Ixana.
- (Jul 24) Congratulations to Archisman Ghosh on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will also be joining Ixana.
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(Jul 24)
Prof. Shreyas Sen delivered an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture at Intel Labs, Hillsboro, Oregon.
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(Jun 24)
Prof. Shreyas Sen presented an invited talk on "Human-Inspired Distributed Wearable AI" at the Design Automation Conference (DAC).
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(Feb 24)
Prof. Shreyas Sen presented an invited tutorial on "Circuit-Techniques for Resilience to Side-Channel Attacks" at IEEE ISSCC.
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(Jan 24)
Ixana, a Purdue spin-off founded by Prof. Sen, won the IoT Wearables Innovation of the Year award at the IoT Breakthrough Awards.
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(Jan 24)
SparcLab has begun work on a ~$4.5M IARPA grant (Phase III) in collaboration with Expedition Technology.
- (Dec 23) Congratulations to Yi Xie on successfully defending her MS thesis. She will be joining Ford Motor Company.
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(Dec 23)
Ixana won the CES 2023 Innovation Award for its Wi-R technology in Embedded Technologies and Computer Hardware.
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(Oct 23)
SparcLab received a research grant from Sandia National Laboratory to study EM interference.
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(Aug 23)
Purdue Ventures announces its investment in Ixana to support its next-generation wireless technology. (Read More)
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(Aug 23)
Ixana's breakthrough Wi-R wireless technology is featured on live TV and showcased at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023. (Watch the feature)
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(Aug 23)
After 7 years of research, Ixana's "Communicate with Touch" Wi-R technology becomes product-ready and makes its official debut at CES 2023. (Watch the Demo)
- (Jun 23) Congratulations to Donghyun Seo on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will be joining Qualcomm.
- (May 23) Congratulations to Mayukh Nath on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will be joining Corning.
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(Apr 23)
Prof. Shreyas Sen delivered a keynote on "Securing the Internet of Bodies" at the DATE Conference in Europe.
- (Apr 23) Ixana was named Startup of the Year at the Mira Awards.
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(Feb 23)
Prof. Shreyas Sen gave a talk on Advanced Circuits for Wearable and Implantable Devices at IEEE ISSCC.
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(Jan 23)
Ixana was recognized in the EE Times Silicon 100 list of impactful startups in electronics and semiconductors.
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(Aug 22)
Prof. Shreyas Sen was appointed Associate Editor of Nature Scientific Reports.
- (Jul 22) Congratulations to Baibhab Chatterjee on successfully defending his PhD thesis. He will be joining the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor.
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(Jun 22)
Prof. Shreyas Sen delivered an invited talk on Human Body Communications at the IEEE RFIC Symposium.
- (Jun 22) SparcLab received research support from Eli Lilly and Company for medical solutions development.
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(Jan 22)
Prof. Shreyas Sen was recognized in Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s "40 Under 40" list for his invention: Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication.
- (Oct 21) Paper on Adiabatic HBC is accepted for presentation in ISSCC 2022 and selected for live demonstartion.
Congratulations to Baibhab and co-authors.
- (Sep 21)Purdue Teams up on $15M IARPA grant to advance frontiers of Radio-Frequency Machine Learning Security Purdue News Release , IARPA Press Release , Shreyas Linkedin , Purdue Linkedin , Twitter , FB , Expedition Technology Press Release .
- (Aug 21) 8 New graduate Students join Sparclab in Fall 2021. Welcome Abdur, Gourab, Marzeih, Meghna, Samyadip, Sukriti, John and Frank.
- (May 21) Prof. Shreyas Sen is recognized with a Rising Star Professorship as the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Link to Bio read during Purdue Recognition.
- (May 21) SparcLab's paper on the first Bi-Phasic EQS Brain Communication is presented in VLSI 2021 [Paper Link] , [Video Link] and selected for live demonstartion.
Congratulations to Baibhab and co-authors.
- (April 21) Congratulations to Baibhab for Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
- (April 21) Congratulations to Prof. Sen for Purdue College of Engineering (CoE) Faculty Excellence Awardfor Early Career Research. Purdue University News.
- (April 21) Congratulations to Prof. Sen for Intel's 2020 Outstanding researcher Award. Intel News, Purdue University News.
- (April 21) SparcLab's paper wins Outstanding Student paper award in CICC 2021
Congratulations to Nirmoy and co-authors.
- (Feb 21) Congratulations to Debayan for SSCS pre-doctoral fellowship.
- (Feb 21) SparcLab's ISSCC selected for live demonstration in ISSCC 2021
Congratulations to Archisman , and co-authors. Demonestration video can be found here. Full presentation can be found here.
- (Feb 21) 2 papers accepted in Scientific Reports (Nature)
Congratulations to Shreeya , Mayukh and co-authors.
- (Jan 21) 4 papers accepted for oral presentation in IMS 2021.
Congratulations to Jie, Faizul , Arunashish , Mayukh and co-authors.
- (Jan 21) 4 papers accepted for oral presentation in IMS 2021.
- (Jan 21) 2 papers accepted for oral presentation in CICC 2021
Congratulations to Gaurav , Nirmoy and co-authors.
- (Dec 20) SparcLab's demo received 2nd best demo award at HOST 2020.
Congratulations to Josef, Debayan .
- (Dec 20) SparcLab's work had been featured in IEEE spectrum Dec 2020 issue.
Congratulations to Shovan , Debayan and other SparcLab members.
- (Nov 20) SparcLab's paper had been selected as an Editor's choice article in MDPI sensor's journal.
Congratulations to Parikha , Baibhab and co-authors.
- (Nov 20) Digital Communication through Human Touch achieving ~mm scale fingertip signal confinement: ACM ToCHI paper/CHI 2021 presentation.
Congratulations to Shovan, David and co-authors. Demonestration video can be found here.
- (Oct 20) Prof. Shreyas Sen participated in Vaibhav (Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik summit) organized by Govt. of India.
- (Oct 20) Paper accepted in ISSCC 2021.
Congratulations to Archisman and co-authors.
- (Sep 20) Purdue ECE : Celebrating Our Associate Professors.
Congratulations to Prof. Shreyas Sen for starting new position as Associate Professor at Purdue University.
- (Aug 20) RFIC 2020 3MT Thesis Audience Choice awarded to Baibhab Chatterjee.
Congratulations to Baibhab . After CICC 2019 best paper, this is a nice continuation.
- (Jun 20) Prof. Sen talks about COVID-19 Disrupting Point of Care Diagnostics with BioCrossroads.
- (Apr 20) Paper accepted in VLSI 2020.
Congratulations to Baibhab and collaborators at Georgia Tech.
- (Apr 20) Paper on HBC safety analysis accepted in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
Congratulations to Shovan and co-authors.
- (Mar 20) Paper accepted in RFIC 2020.
Congratulations to Baibhab and co-authors.
- (Feb 20) Prof. Shreyas Sen receives NSF CAREER Award supporting his research on Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication.
- (Jan 20) 3 Papers accepted in CICC 2020.
Congratulations to Baibhab , Debayan , Shovan , and co-authors.
Secure EQS-HBC: paper , video slides .
Deep Learning SCA Resilient Hardware: paper , video slides .
Energy-efficient Transciever: paper , video slides .
- (Oct 19) Our paper on CMOS-based radiation to digital converter accepted in JSSC 2020.
Congratulations to Baibhab and co-authors.
- (Oct 19) Our paper on EM Side Channel countermeasure titled "EM and Power SCA-resilient AES-256 in 65nm CMOS through >350x Current Domain Signature Attenuation" accepted in ISSCC 2020.
Congratulations to Debayan and co-authors.
ISSCC 2020 Demo Video can be found here .
- (Oct 19) Prof. Sen speaks about Security of Internet of Body at TEDx Indianapolis.
Full talk can be found here.
- (Oct 19) Prof. Sen spoke on Radio layer vulnerabilities and Spectrum Policy at Silicon Flatirons.
The conference featured keynotes by Julius Knapp, Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology, and Dr. Lisa Porter, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, who oversees the U.S. Department of Defense's work on 5G security. There were panel discussions on the health care industry , cellular communications, along with next steps and solutions in this area.
- (Aug 19) Collaborative work on Wearable EMG Sensor accepted in Science Advances.
- (Aug 19) Prof. Sen presents a tutorial on Hardware Security (EM Side-Channel) at the CHES conference.
- (Jul 19) Prof. Sen spoke about Edge-Intelligence at DARPA ERI 2019.
- (Jul 19) Purdue announces record year for invention. Prof. Sen's research is featured.
- (Jun 19) JSSC paper on lowest-energy Broadband HBC accepted. Congratulations to Shovan and co-authors.
- (Mar-May 19) Solutions to Cyber Attacks reported by The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned that numerous medical devices made by Medtronic are vulnerable to cyber attacks. A solution to which is the EQS-HBC recently published by our group. IEEE Spectrum covered our work saying "Medtronic discloses medical device vulnerabilities, while Purdue University scientists propose countermeasure to block attacks". Details: In this IEEE Spectrum Article.
- (May 19) Best Student Paper Award at HOST 2019
Congratulations Debayan and co-authors. Details: In this Purdue News Release.
This work presents a white-box model for electromagnetic signal leakage and low-overhead countermeasure for EM Side-Channel Attack. (Paper Link)
This is also the third succesive year that SparcLab has received Best paper/poster Award at HOST (2017, 2018 and 2019). Congratulations to all the co-authors for this series of fantastic work on IoT Security over past 3 years. Also, a big Thank You to our collaborators from Intel, especially Santosh Ghosh, the whole Intel Labs team, Arijit Raychowdhury and National Science Foundation (NSF) for the constant support, funding, and encouragement.
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Congratulations Baibhab and co-authors, Prof. Dimitrios Peroulis' team, and our LANDAUER collaborators Daniel J. Valentino and Sean M. Scott on this award. Details: In this Purdue News Release.
The paper presented the first monolithic CMOS radiation to digital converter, which consists of a floating-gate radiation sensor and a time-based resistance-to-digital-converter (RDC). Great industry-academia collaboration. Thank you all! Details: In this CICC Award Announcement
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Our work on EQS-HBC is covered by 50+ news sites. More details here. This paper in Scientific Reports (Nature) demonstrated Physical Security of HBC for the first time. Congratulations to Debayan and co-authors.
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Congratulations to Debayan and Baibhab and co-authors.
Prof. Sen is recognized with the HKN Beta Chapter 'Outstanding Professor Award' and Purdue EVPRP Acorn Award
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Prof. Sen was invited to speak at IU-AFRL 2030, that aims to help define the Science and Technology vision for 2030. Discussions with Major General Bill Cooley, Commander of Air Force Research Laboratory, during this event was really inspiring.
Congratulations Baibhab and co-authors. Purdue News Release.
Baibhab Chatterjee and co-authors received 3rd Best Poster Award for paper titled "RF-PUF: IoT Security Enhancement through Authentication of Wireless Nodes using In-situ Machine Learning," at premier Hardware Security Conference HOST 2018. This work shows how In-situ Machine Learning could Secure Radio Communication.
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Prof. Sen has been named one of India’s top innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review and Mint. Mint Newspaper , Purdue News Release
We are going to present a RF-PUF for IoT Security Enhancement using Machine Learning in Radio baseband. Congratulations Baibhab and co-authors.
highlighting new insights into HBC Channel Models. Congratulations Shovan and co-authors. Title: Characterization of Human Body Forward Path Loss and Variability Effects in Voltage-Mode HBC.
demonstrating World's Lowest Energy HBC Transceiver, improving the state-of-the-art by 18X. Congratulations Shovan and co-authors. Title: A 6.3pJ/b 30Mbps -30dB SIR-tolerant Broadband Interference-Robust Human Body Communication Transceiver using Time Domain Signal-Interference Separation.
subsidiary Lakeshore Public Radio published excerpts of Radio Interview on Purdue Human Body Communication Technology. (Listen Here)
Our work on Broadband Interference-robust Human Body Communication was featured by 30+ news sites in USA, UK, Greece, India. We sincerely thank our sponsors AFOSR YIP, NSF CRII Award and Google FRA for supporting this research spanning from basic research to applications.
Congratulations to Debayan and co-authors at Purdue, Georgia Tech and Intel Labs. HOST Announcement, Purdue Spotlight, Georgia Tech News
(Feb 16) Paper presented in ISSCC 2016 on Proximity Comm. (23.2) demonstrating world's fastest and most energy-efficient board-to-board capacitive communication link.
