INVITED LECTURES & TUTORIALS

• (Nov 13, 2025) Sandia National Laboratories – "Broad Overview of Research Portfolio: Secure Communication, Sensing & Intelligence for Human-AI Collaboration"
• (Nov 12, 2025) Amazon Discovery Day – "Wearable AI with Perpetual Body-Electronics : Body as a Wire"
• (Oct 15, 2025) IEEE BioCAS Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Workshop – "Intelligent Connected Wearables and Implants for Next-Generation Bioelectronics"
• (Aug 8, 2025) University of Toronto – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"
• (Jul 16, 2025) IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC) – "The Role of Electro-Quasistatic Fields in Intrabody Communication and Powering"
• (Jun 17, 2025) IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) – "Interaction of EM-Fields with Human Body for Efficient Communication: Body as a Wire and Body as a Transmission-Line"
• (May 22, 2025) University of Cambridge – "Circuits and Systems for Ultra-low-Power and Secure Human-Body Communication (HBC) for the Next-generation of Intelligent Wearables and Implants"
• (Jan 4, 2025) IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), Bangalore, India – "Circuits and Systems for Ultra-low-Power and Secure Human-Body Communication (HBC) for the Next-generation of Intelligent Wearables and Implants"
• (Oct 24, 2024) IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) – "Electro-Quasistatic Brain & Body Communication Circuit Model for Efficient and Secure Internet of Bodies"
• (Oct 21, 2024) IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecture, City University of Hong Kong – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"
• (Oct 2, 2024) IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL) Inspire & Distinguished Lecture, Ohio State University – "Recent Advances in Circuit-techniques for Resilience to Side-Channel Attacks"
• (Sep 27, 2024) BITS Pilani – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"
• (Jul 19, 2024) IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecture, Intel Hillsboro – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"
• (Jun 26, 2024) Design Automation Conference (DAC) – "Human-Inspired Distributed Wearable AI"
• (Jan 15, 2024) Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and Jadavpur University – "Internet of Bodies for seamless Human-Machine Co-operation and Real-time AI"
• (Nov 29, 2023) NSF US-UK Security Workshop – "Recent Advances in Electro-Magnetic Hardware Security and Physical-layer Generic Countermeasures"
• (Aug 8, 2023) IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) – "The Vision of the Internet of Bodies (IoB)"
• (Apr 18, 2023) IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies (IoB) using Body as a ‘Wire’"
• (Feb 15, 2023) IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies (IoB) using Body as a ‘Wire’"
• (Sep 23, 2022) University of Southern California (USC) – "Understanding the Photonic & EM Side-Channel: Theory, Attacks and Generic Defense"
• (Fall 2022) Intel RARE – "Understanding the Photonic & EM Side-Channel: Theory, Attacks and Generic Defense"
• (Jul 18, 2022) Indian Institute of Science (IISc), IIT Kharagpur, and Jadavpur University – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies (IoB) using Body as a ‘Wire’"
• (Jun 19, 2022) IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies (IoB) using Body as a ‘Wire’"
• (Jan 28, 2022) University of Notre Dame – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Bodies (IoB)"
• (Dec 2, 2021) IEEE Physical Assurance and Inspection of Electronics (PAINE) – "Recent Advances in Circuit-level Techniques to Kill the EM Side Channel Leakage at Its Source"
• (Dec 2, 2021) Intel Workshop Presentation – "RF-PUF/Fingerprinting & SparcLab RF-PUF Dataset"
• (Fall 2021) IU-Purdue Engineering-Medicine PEI – "SparcLab’s Leadership in Body Electronics"
• (Fall 2021) Intel Rare Kickoff – "Understanding the Photonic Side-Channel: Theory, Attacks and Generic Defense"
• (Fall 2021) Intel Side-Channel Academic Program (SCAP) – "Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasures against EM & Power Side-Channel Attacks"
• (Aug 3, 2021) IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense (RAPID) – "Physically-Secure Low-Power Human State Measurement using EQS-HBC and Edge-Analytics"
• (Jul 7, 2021) MEST Center Security Invited Talk – "Recent Advances in Electro-Magnetic Hardware Security and Physical-layer Generic Countermeasures"
• (Jun 23, 2021) Intrinsix Deep Dive – "STELLAR+: A Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasure for EM/Power Side-Channel Attacks"
• (Jun 9, 2021) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) – "Human State Measurement in RF-denied environment using Body as a Wire"
• (Feb 24, 2021) Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP), Purdue University – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Body (IoB) leveraging Human Body as a Wire"
• (Feb 19, 2021) University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Body (IoB) leveraging Human Body as a Wire and Physical Security"
• (Dec 7, 2020) IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) – "Electromagnetic and Machine Learning Side-Channel Attacks and Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasures"
• (Oct 21, 2020) Vaibhav Summit, Govt. of India – "Flexible Battery-Free Sensor Nodes for the Internet of Body"
• (Sep 28, 2020) Intel Side-Channel Academic Program (SCAP) Workshop – "Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasures against EM & Power Side-Channel Attacks"
• (2020) Celebrating our Associate Professor CoAP Event – "The Journey of: The Invention and Impact of Body-As-A-Wire Technology & Mentoring Undergraduates in the Process"
• (Aug 22, 2020) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur – "Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication for the Future of the Internet of Body"
• (Jun 26, 2020) SMART Films, Purdue University – "Self-powered Sensors with Energy-harvested Ultra-Low Power Time-domain Sensing"
• (Jun 25, 2020) ECE Seminar – "Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication for the Future of the Internet of Body"
• (Jun 21, 2020) Device Research Conference (DRC) IoT Short Course – "IoT Sensor Nodes: Challenges and Opportunities"
• (May 27, 2020) BioCrossroads Frameworx – "Wearable PoC Examples"
• (Jan 23, 2020) CTSI/PEI Wearable – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Body (IoB) for Engineering the Future of Health"
• (Dec 20, 2019) Jadavpur University (ETCE Dept) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Body (IoB) using Human Body Communication and Edge-Analytics"
• (Dec 5, 2019) SMART Films, Purdue University – "Increasing Life-Expectancy: Energy Optimization in a Batteryless Wide-Area Sensor Network..."
• (Dec 3, 2019) University of Florida (UFL) – "Secure and Efficient Internet of Body (IoB)"
• (Nov 14, 2019) IEEE ITC Automotive Reliability and Test Workshop (ITC ART) – "Role of Physical Security in Automotive"
• (Nov 8, 2019) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) – "Role of Electro-Magnetic Emanations and Machine Learning in Hardware Security: Side-Channel Attack Protection and RF-PUF"
• (Nov 6, 2019) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) – "Secure Efficient Health Monitoring and Human-Machine Interaction with Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication"
• (Oct 28, 2019) SMART Films, Purdue University – "Increasing Life-Expectancy: Energy Optimization in a Batteryless Wide-Area Sensor Network..."
• (Oct 10, 2019) Silicon Flatirons – "Saving Our Spectrum"
• (Aug 25, 2019) IACR CHES Conference – "Electromagnetic and Machine Learning Side-Channel Attacks and Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasures"
• (Jul 17, 2019) DARPA ERI Edge-Intelligence Workshop – "Context-Aware Adaptation of Communication and Analytics in Resource-constrained Intelligent Edge Nodes"
• (Jun 13, 2019) Intel Side-Channel Academic Program (SCAP) Workshop – "Low-Overhead Generic Countermeasures against EM & Power Side-Channel Attacks"
• (May 28, 2019) Lilly Meeting – "Secure, Energy-Efficient IoT Sensor Nodes with Edge-Analytics"
• (May 15, 2019) SmartFilms Industry Day - Tutorials – "Secure, Energy-Efficient IoT Sensor Nodes with Edge-Analytics"
• (Apr 25, 2019) Purdue Engineering Faculty Conversation (EFC) – "Design for Security and Trust"
• (Apr 18, 2019) IEEE DTIS Keynote – "Transforming the Internet of ‘Body’ with Human Body Communication"
• (Apr 16, 2019) ARM Austin, Texas – "Secure, Efficient 'Internet of Body' using Human Body Communication and In-Sensor Analytics"
• (Apr 15, 2019) IEEE CICC Forum – "Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication: From Physics to Broadband IC and Applications"
• (May 23, 2018) TxACE STARS Workshop – "Security Threats in the Analog / RF Domain: An Academic Perspective"
• (May 10, 2018) Indiana University / AFRL 2030 – "Resource-Constrained Intelligence at the Connected Edge"
• (Apr 20, 2018) Intel Labs – "Securing EM Side-Channels through Generic Low-Overhead Physical Countermeasures"
• (Apr 2, 2018) CPS/IoT Engineering Faculty Council (EFC) – "Secure Internet of Body (IoB) using Human Body Communication and In-Sensor Analytics"
• (2017) Printing Smart Films, Discovery Park – "High Resolution A/D Converter for parts per billion (ppb) Sensing"
• (Feb 26, 2017) Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) – "Contactless-Power Delivery"
• (Feb 20, 2017) Siemens Visit – "Secure Human Centered Network of Intelligent Devices using Human Body Communication and In-Sensor Analytics"
• (Feb 15, 2017) Birck Faculty Seminar – "Secure Human Centered Network of Intelligent Devices using Human Body Communication and In-Sensor Analytics"
• (Jan 11, 2017) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay – "Secure Human Centered Network of Intelligent Devices using Human Body Communication"
• (Jan 4, 2017) TCS Innovation Labs – "Staged Inference Using Conditional Deep Learning and Human Body Communication for Smart Diagnosis"
• (Oct 30, 2016) IEEE Sensors Conference – "Context-Aware, Ultra-Low Power IoT Sensor Nodes"
• (Sep 27, 2016) US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology, Seoul – "Neuromorphic Computing in CMOS"
• (Jul 28, 2016) IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) – "Secure, Energy-Efficient Connectivity using Human Body Communication"
• (Jun 8, 2016) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) – "Context-Adaptive Communication for IoT Sensor Nodes"
• (Jan 2015) Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR – "Context-Adaptive Communication Circuits/Systems"
• (Nov 3, 2014) IEEE ICCAD – "Channel-Adaptive Zero-Margin & Process-Adaptive Self-Healing Communication Systems"
• (Aug 9, 2011; Nov 2, 2010) Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR – "Environment and Process Adaptive Low-Power Circuits"

MEDIA, TELEVISION & RADIO APPEARANCES

• (Jan 5, 2023) NASDAQ TradeTalks (Live TV Interview) — "10x-ing the Wearables Market with Wi-R"
• (Oct 24, 2019) TEDx Indianapolis — "How Your Body Can Play an Integral Role in Wearable Security"
• (2018) Mint MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 India – "Secure Efficient Human Body Network using Subcutaneous Transport"
• Freethink Hardreset (filmed at Purdue and Ixana Labs) — Coverage of EQS-HBC Technology (Wi-R)
• Purdue ECE Engineering Innovations Podcast (Video)
• (2020) Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado Boulder — Panel on Radio Layer Vulnerabilities and Spectrum Policy
• CNBC TV18 (India) — "Young Turks" Program
• NPR Lakeshore Public Radio — Interview on Human Body Communication (HBC)

PANELIST

• (Aug 28, 2023) Rally Panel – "Purdue University to have a large presence at Rally in Indianapolis"
• (Oct 04, 2021) Purdue Graduate Showcase Biomedical Panel
• (May 27, 2020) BioCrossroads Frameworx, Virtual Event — "Disrupting Point of Care Diagnostics"
• (Nov 14, 2019) IEEE International Test Conference – Automotive Reliability and Test Workshop (ITC ART 2019), Washington DC — "Security and Safety Challenges in Automotive"
• (2018) TxACE Workshop on Secure and Trusted Analog/RF Systems (TxACE STARS 2018) — "Security Threats in the Analog/RF Domain: An Academic Perspective"
  Co-Panelists: Ioannis Savidis, Drexel University; Kaiyuan Yang, Rice University. Moderator: Swaroop Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University
• (2017) IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2017) — "AI, Cognitive Information Processing, and Rebooting Computing"
  Co-Panelists: Stan Williams, HPE; Tom Conte, Georgia Tech; Trung Tran, Booz-Allen. Organizer: David Mountain, DoD

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZATION

• (2018) IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) — "The Vanishing Boundary Between Digital and Analog"
• (2016) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) — "Enabling the Internet of Things: Context-Awareness in Sensing, Communication and Computing"
• (2018) IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS) — "Intelligent Resource-Constrained Sensor Nodes"
• (2017) IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) — "Design and Test Needs for Adaptive, Self-Learning and Cognitive Systems"
• (2016) IEEE Sensors — "Context-Aware, Ultra-Low Power, Energy-Harvested IoT Sensor Nodes"
• (2016) IEEE International Mixed-Signals, Sensors and Systems Test Workshop (IMS3TW)
• (2014) IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) — Panel on "Elevator Talks on Emerging Test Frontiers"

SESSION CHAIR

• (2025) IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) — Innovative Wired and Wireless Links
• (2024) IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) — Mixed-Signal Compute in Memory
• (2021) IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) — Security Instances: Shielding the Achilles' Heel of Chips
• (2020) IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID) — AMS Modeling and Design
• (2019) IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
  • Circuits and Systems for Security
  • Educational Session: 56/112G Link Foundations
  • Forum: Alternative Computing Models using Analog/MS Computational Substrates
• (2018) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) — Arch Nemesis: Architectural Security
• (2017) IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) — Analog Circuit Design
• (2017) IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) — Models for Clinical Decision Support (Co-Chair)
• (2016) IEEE National Aerospace Electronics Conference (NAECON) — Emerging Electronics and Microsystems
• (2014) IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)
  • Modeling and Measuring Complex Analog Behaviors
  • Firing Line Expert — "Fool Nyquist, Fix Nonlinearity, Tolerate Jitter"
• (2012) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) — The Dark Side of Test
• (2011) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) — New Methods and Metrics in Test and Reliability

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• (2024–2025) IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
• (2019–2024) IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
• (2021–2022, 2025) IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
• (2022) ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
• (2018–2021) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• (2021) IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST)
• (2018–2020) IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
• (2017–2018) IEEE International Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
• (2017–2019) IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
• (2017, 2018) IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)
• (2013–2015, 2017–2020, 2023) IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID)
• (2014) IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)
• (2017, 2018) IEEE International Mixed-Signals Test Workshop (IMSTW)
• (2014) IEEE International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test
• (2013) IEEE International Workshop on Test and Validation of High-Speed Analog Circuits (TVHAC) (with ITC 2013)

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER

• (2024) IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design
• (2017) 22nd IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)

JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS

Associate Editor

• (Aug 2022–Present) Nature Scientific Reports
• (May 2021–Present) Frontiers in Electronics
• (Jan 2016–Present) IEEE Design and Test (D&T)
  1st term 2016–2019, 2nd term 2020–2021, 3rd term 2021–Present

Guest Editor

• (Dec 2024) IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) – Special Issue on IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2024)
• (Early 2023) IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL) – Special Issue on IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2022)
• (Oct 2021) IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSCL) – Special Issue on IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2021)
• (Feb 2019) IEEE Design and Test (D&T) – Special Issue on "Intelligent Resource-Constrained Sensor Nodes"

JOURNAL REVIEWS

• Nature Communications
• IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC)
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)
• IEEE Transaction on Circuits & Systems I (TCAS I)
• IEEE Transaction on Computer Aided Design (TCAD)
• IEEE Transaction on Very Large-Scale Integration (TVLSI)
• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS)
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)
• Frontiers in Neuroscience, section Neuromorphic Engineering
• Scientific Reports (Nature)
• IEEE Journal of Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT)
• Applied Physics Letters (APL)
• IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL)
• IEEE Design and Test Magazine (D&T)
• IEEE Transaction on Circuits & Systems II (TCAS II)
• IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL)
• IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)
• Electronics Letters
• Springer Journal of Electronic Testing (JETTA)
• IEEE Access
• Journal of Hardware and Systems Security (HASS)
• Springer Journal of Medical Systems (JOMS)
• ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)

CONFERENCE REVIEWS

• ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
• IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
• IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
• IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
• IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics & Design (ISLPED)
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
• IEEE International Test Conference (ITC)
• IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS)
• IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design
• IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)

OTHER

• (DAC 2016) ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference – DAC Invited Special Session Speaker: "Context-Adaptive and Energy-Efficient Communication for IoT Sensor Nodes"
• (ICCAD 2014) IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design – ICCAD Invited Special Session Speaker: "Adaptive Designs in Computing, Power Management and Communication for Low-Power Circuits and Systems with Ultra-Wide Dynamic Ranges"
• (IMSTW 2015) IEEE International Mixed-Signal Testing Workshop – Industry Support Group Member
• (2014–2015) Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) – Industry Liaison