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Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Anantha P. Chandrakasan

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
136
Citations
122584
World Ranking
29
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For energy-efficient design methodologies and circuits that enabled ultralow-power wireless sensors and computing devices
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of low-power circuit and system design methods.
  • 2013 - IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits “For pioneering techniques in low-power digital and analog CMOS design.”
  • 2009 - Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award
  • 2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design of energy efficient integrated circuits and systems.

Overview

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research focus spanning engineering and computer science. Their work particularly concentrates on electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, hardware and architecture, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry. The scientist has produced numerous publications that cover a broad range of topics, including physical unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware security, cryptographic implementations and security, adversarial robustness in machine learning, integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis, energy harvesting in wireless networks, wireless power transfer systems, and RFID technology advancements.

The most frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine
  • Nature Electronics
  • 2022 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Anantha P. Chandrakasan are:

  • Low-thermal-budget synthesis of monolayer molybdenum disulfide for silicon back-end-of-line integration on a 200 mm platform, 2023, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Multifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Sub-1.4 cm3 capsule for detecting labile inflammatory biomarkers in situ, 2023, Nature
  • Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging, 2023, Science Advances
  • A conformable phased-array ultrasound patch for bladder volume monitoring, 2023, Nature Electronics

Frequent collaborators who have coauthored multiple works with Chandrakasan include:

  • Saurav Maji
  • Maitreyi Ashok
  • Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
  • Utsav Banerjee
  • Giovanni Traverso

Chandrakasan has been recognized through several awards, including being named an ACM Fellow in 2020 for contributions to energy-efficient design methodologies and circuits enabling ultralow-power wireless sensors and computing devices. In 2019, they became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for developing low-power circuit and system design methods.

Additional honors include the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits in 2013 for pioneering techniques in low-power digital and analog CMOS design, the Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award in 2009, and IEEE Fellow status in 2004 due to contributions to energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems.

Best Publications

  • Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks

    W.R. Heinzelman;A. Chandrakasan;H. Balakrishnan

  • An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks

    W.B. Heinzelman;A.P. Chandrakasan;H. Balakrishnan

  • Digital integrated circuits : a design perspective

    Jan M Rabaey;Anantha Chandrakasan;Borivoje Nikolic

  • Low-Power CMOS Digital Design

    Anantha P. Chandrakasan;Samuel Sheng;Robert W. Brodersen

  • Digital Integrated Circuits

    Jan M. Rabaey;Anantha Chandrakasan;Borivoje Nikolic

  • Application-specific protocol architectures for wireless networks

    Wendi Beth Heinzelman;Anantha P. Chandrakasan;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Physical layer driven protocol and algorithm design for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks

    Eugene Shih;Seong-Hwan Cho;Nathan Ickes;Rex Min

  • Vibration-to-electric energy conversion

    S. Meninger;J.O. Mur-Miranda;R. Amirtharajah;A. Chandrakasan

  • Minimizing power consumption in digital CMOS circuits

    A.P. Chandrakasan;R.W. Brodersen

  • Low Power Digital CMOS Design

    Anantha P. Chandrakasan;Robert W. Brodersen

  • Energy-efficient communication protocols for wireless microsensor networks

    Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman;Anantha Chandrakasan;Hari Balakrishnan

  • Adaptive body bias for reducing impacts of die-to-die and within-die parameter variations on microprocessor frequency and leakage

    J.W. Tschanz;J.T. Kao;S.G. Narendra;R. Nair

  • Dynamic power management in wireless sensor networks

    A. Sinha;A. Chandrakasan

  • Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits

    Anantha P. Chandrakasan;William J. Bowhill;Frank Fox

  • Self-powered signal processing using vibration-based power generation

    R. Amirtharajah;A.P. Chandrakasan

  • Upper bounds on the lifetime of sensor networks

    M. Bhardwaj;T. Garnett;A.P. Chandrakasan

  • An efficient piezoelectric energy-harvesting interface circuit using a bias-flip rectifier and shared inductor

    Yogesh K. Ramadass;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Sub-threshold Design for Ultra Low-Power Systems

    Alice Wang;Benton Highsmith Calhoun;Anantha P Chandrakasan

  • Bounding the lifetime of sensor networks via optimal role assignments

    M. Bhardwaj;A.P. Chandrakasan

  • A Battery-Less Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Interface Circuit With 35 mV Startup Voltage

    Yogesh K. Ramadass;Anantha P. Chandrakasan

  • Die-to-Die and Within-Die Parameter Variations on Microprocessor Frequency and Leakage

    James Tschanz;James Kao;Siva Narendra;Raj Nair

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen University of California, Berkeley
Benton H. Calhoun
Benton H. Calhoun University of Virginia
Patrick P. Mercier
Patrick P. Mercier University of California, San Diego
Naveen Verma
Naveen Verma Princeton University
David D. Wentzloff
David D. Wentzloff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
SeongHwan Cho
SeongHwan Cho Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Li-Shiuan Peh
Li-Shiuan Peh National University of Singapore
Siva G. Narendra
Siva G. Narendra Tyfone, Inc.

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