Siddhartha Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Focus
Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration
About
Siddhartha Ghosh received a BS degree from Cornell University in 2007, an M.S.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, and a PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015—all in electrical engineering. From 2015 to 2020 he was a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He joined Northeastern’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2021. His research interests include piezoelectric MEMS, acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration. He has authored more than 20 journal and conference publications and is the co-inventor of two patents.
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
Professional Affiliations
- IEEE
- Optica (formerly OSA)
Research Overview
Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration
Selected Research Projects
- Nano-opto-mechanical Piezoelectric Resonant Infrared-sensitive Metamaterials for Quantum-Limited Photodetection
- – Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Ghosh, M.A. Hollis, R.J. Molnar, Acoustoelectric Amplification of Rayleigh Waves in Low Sheet Density AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures on Sapphire, Applied Physics Letters, 114, 2019, 063502
- Chou, S. Bramhavar, S. Ghosh, W. Herzog Analog Coupled Oscillator Based Weighted Ising Machine, Scientific Reports, 9, 2019, 14786
- Ghosh, G. Piazza, RF Oscillators Based on Piezoelectrically Driven Optical Modulation, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 65, 2018, 1391
- Ghosh, G. Piazza, Laterally Vibrating Resonator Based Elasto-Optic Modulation in Aluminum Nitride, APL Photonics, 1, 2016, 036101
- Ghosh, G. Piazza, Piezoelectric Actuation of Aluminum Nitride Contour Mode Optomechanical Resonators, Optics Express 23, 2015, 15477
- Ghosh, G. Piazza, Photonic Microdisk Resonators in Aluminum Nitride, Journal of Applied Physics 113, 2013, 016101
Apr 18, 2023
ECE PhD Student Awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship
PhD student Jack Guida, electrical engineering, advised by Assistant Professor Siddharta Ghosh, was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship. He is researching microscale acoustics and integrated photonics as part of the Northeastern SMART research center.
Feb 14, 2023
$4 Million DARPA Grant for Ultra-Small, Fast, High-Resolution Infrared Sensors
Matteo Rinaldi, professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and director of the Northeastern SMART research center, is leading a $4 million DARPA grant under the DARPA Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) program.
Apr 28, 2022
FY23 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 15 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY23 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
Jan 08, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Siddhartha Ghosh
Siddhartha Ghosh joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2021 as an Assistant Professor.