PI: Baibhab Chatterjee
I am an Assistant Professor, and currently the Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor at the ECE department in the University of Florida (joined in Fall 2022). My interests are in low power, efficient, and secure circuits and systems design for smart applications.
Baibhab’s CV: PDF
— WISE Lab has multiple openings for PhD research scholars. Please contact me by email at chatterjee.b@ufl.edu with your CV. All I need from you is that you are extremely motivated, enthusiastic, determined and passionate about what you want to do. Everything else can be learnt and/or figured out 😀
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2022
- M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, 2015. Institute Silver Medalist, GPA: 10/10
- B. Tech., National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur, India, 2011. University Gold Medalist, GPA: 9.5/10
Biography
Baibhab received the Ph.D. degree in 2022 from the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. He is currently an Assistant Professor and the Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor in the Department of ECE at the University of Florida. His industry experience includes two years as a digital design engineer/senior digital design engineer at Intel (2015-17) and one year as a R&D Engineer at Tejas Networks, India (2011-12). He was also in the Quantum Hardware Design team with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA during 2020-21, where he worked on ultra-low power quantum receiver front-ends.
Baibhab is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2025), the Eaton Award in Design Excellence (2023), and multiple best paper/poster awards, including HOST 2018 (3rd), CICC 2019, HOST 2019, CICC 2021, and the RFIC/IMS 3MT Award (2020 – audience choice). His research interests include low-power analog, RF, and mixed-signal circuit design for next-generation biomedical and military applications.
Baibhab is a member of the IEEE, and has served as a reviewer for IEEE/ACM journals including JSSC, TCAS-I, TBIOCAS, TVLSI, IOT-J, TDSC, SSCL, TCAS-II, MWCL, IEEE ACCESS, TMC and JETC, and IEEE/ACM conferences including CICC, CASES, BioCAS, ISCAS, VLSID, MWSCAS and EMBC. He served as a Student Advisor for the SRP session in IEEE ISSCC, and as a TPC Member in DAC, CICC, MWSCAS, CASES and VLSID. He is currently serving as an associate editor for TBioCAS, and as an associate editor in the RFID section/ guest editor in the Antennas Array section for the Frontiers in Antennas and Propagation. He is the Founding member and Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Systems at the Edge (ICEdge).
Graduate Researchers:
Ph.D Track Students:
Ovishake Sen (Jan’23 – Present)
Ovishake Sen joined the WISE lab in the spring of 2023, to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh in 2022. After completing his degree, he worked as a lecturer at Southeast University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ovishake is interested in several areas of research including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, speech processing, and data science. During his free time, he loves playing cricket and soccer, traveling, photography, watching movies and listening to music.
Anyu Jiang (May’23 – Present)
Anyu Jiang joined the WISE lab in the Fall of 2023, to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC) in 2022. His research interests included Internet of Body (IoB), Analog/Digital circuit design and energy efficient circuits and systems. During his free time, he loves playing soccer, working out, cooking and reading.
Asif Iftekhar Omi (Aug’23 – Present)
Asif Iftekhar Omi embarked on his Ph.D. journey in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida in 2023 and eventually joined the WISE lab as a Graduate Research Assistant. He achieved his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2014, followed by an M.S. from Washington State University Vancouver, USA, in 2022. His career initially started as a Lecturer at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (2014-2015), then transitioned to industry roles as a System Engineer at Grameenphone Ltd. and later as a Sub-Divisional Engineer at Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd. (2015-2020), before returning to academia as a Teaching Assistant (2021-2022). Currently, he is focused on developing energy-efficient Analog/RF/Bio-Medical integrated circuits and systems. Besides his academic pursuits, he enjoys traveling, exploring new cuisines, and playing badminton, tennis, etc.
Ratul Kundu (Aug’23 – Present)
Ratul joined the WISE lab in the Fall 2023, to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). His research interests include Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Integrated Circuit Design, low-power design, nano-device modeling, and fabrication. He received his Bachelor’s in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2022. After completing his Bachelors, he worked as a lecturer at Northern University Bangladesh. Apart from research, he enjoys traveling, taking photographs, and playing tennis, cricket, and football.
Everestus Ezike (Aug’23 – Present)
Everestus joined the University of Florida in Fall 2023, to pursue his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and has been part of WISE Lab since. His research interests include Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Integrated Circuit Design, MEMS design, and low-power design methodologies. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering (CE) with a minor in Economics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2022.
Anirban Bhattacharya (Aug’24 – Present)
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Adrija Mukherjee (Aug’24 – Present)
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Darpan Virmani (Aug’24 – Present)
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M.S. Track Students:
Undergraduate Researchers:
1) Project: Speech and Handwriting Synthesis from brain waves (CPE Senior Design Research: Co-advised by Dr. Adam Khalifa)
Anna, Pranay and Kabir completed their senior year CpE design project on Speech and Handwriting Detection/Synthesis using Neural (ECoG) Signals. They have developed a portable platform to demonstrate their system.
2) Project: Prototyping Internet of Bodies
3) Project: Side-Channel Attacks ON HARDWARE DEVICES
4) Project: EM simulations on Animal Models
Other Personnel/Project Staff:
- Venkat Geddam (Jan’23-Apr’23)