Aatmesh Shrivastava
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- aatmesh@ece.neu.edu
- 416 ISEC
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 617.373.2063
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Research Focus
Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security
Education
- 2014 PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
- 2006 BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, India
Professional Affiliations
- Circuits and System Society
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Solid-State Circuits Society
Research Overview
Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- N. Shafiee, S. Tewari, B. Calhoun, A. Shrivastava, Infrastructure Circuits for Lifetime Improvement of Ultra-Low Power IoT Devices, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1: Regular Papers, PP(99), 2017, 1-13
- N.E. Roberts, K. Craig, A. Shrivastava, S. Wooters, Y. Shaksheer, D. Wentzloff, B.H. Calhoun, A 236nW-56.5dBm Sensitivity Bluetooth Low-Energy Wakeup Receiver with Energy Harvesting in 65nm CMOS, IEEE Solid-state Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016
- A. Shrivastava, D. Akella, B.H. Calhoun, A 1.5nW, 32.768kHz XTAL Oscillator Operational from 0.3V Supply, IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits, 51(3), 2016, 686-696
- A. Roy, A. Klinefelter, F.B. Yahya, X. Chen, P. Gonzalez, D. Akella, J. Boley, K. Craig, M. Faisal, S. Oh, N.E. Roberts, Y. Shakhsheer, A. Shrivastava, D. Vasudevan, D.D. Wentzloff, B.H. Calhoun, A 6.45μW Self-Powered SoC with Integrated Energy-Harvesting Power Management and ULP Asymmetric Radios for Portable Biomedical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 9(6), 2015, 862-874 *Invited paper to the special issue on International Solid State Circuits Conference 2015
- A. Shrivastava, N.E. Roberts, O.U. Khan, D.D. Wentzloff, B.H. Calhoun, A 10mV-Input Boost Converter with Inductor Peak Current Control and Zero Detection for Thermoelectric and Solar Energy Harvesting with 220mV Cold-start and -14.5dBm, 915MHz RF Kick-Start, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2015 *Invited paper to the special issue on Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2014
- A. Shrivastava, K. Craig, N.E. Roberts, D. Wentzloff, B.H. Calhoun, A 32nW Bandgap Reference Voltage Operational from 0.5V Supply for Ultra-Low Power Systems, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2015

Sep 03, 2020
Creating a Smart Ring to Monitor Health Conditions
ECE Affiliated Faculty Holly Jimison, Assistant Professors Aatmesh Shrivastava and Hui Fang were awarded a $300K NSF grant to create a “Self-powered Smart Ring for Always-On Health Interventions.”

Jan 04, 2019
Patent Awarded to Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Single Inductor Multiple Output DC-DC converter.” Abstract Source: USPTO In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The apparatus also includes a panoptic dynamic voltage scaling […]

Oct 09, 2018
$1.34M NIH Grant for Wireless Microscale Neuronal Recording and Stimulation System
ECE Professor Nian Sun, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava were awarded a $1.34M NIH collaborative grant with Massachusetts General Hospital to work on nano-scale neural radio frequency identification (NanoNeuroRFID) devices for wireless neural magnetic modulation and recording.

Jul 09, 2018
Improving the Acquisition of EEG Signals
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava & Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo were awarded a $500K NSF grant to develop an analog computing based feature extraction system-on-a-chip with dry skin-electrode contact interface circuits for wireless EEG sensing.

Jun 12, 2018
Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Given Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low power clock source.” Abstract Source: USPTO An ultra-low power clock source includes a compensated oscillator and an uncompensated oscillator coupled by a comparator circuit. In an example, the compensated oscillator is more stable than the uncompensated oscillator with respect to changes in one or […]

May 22, 2018
Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power.” Abstract Source: USPTO A low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power biases an amplifier for an XTAL in the sub-threshold operating regime. […]

May 15, 2018
Assistant Professor Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low input voltage boost converter with peak inductor current control and offset compensated zero detection.” Abstract Source: USPTO The low input voltage boost converter with peak inductor current control and offset compensated zero detection provide a boost converter scheme to harvest energy from sources with […]

Apr 10, 2018
Patent Awarded to Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power.” Abstract Source: USPTO A low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power biases an amplifier for an XTAL in the sub-threshold operating regime. […]

Jan 08, 2018
Professor Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Methods and Apparatus for Low Input Voltage Bandgap Reference Architecture and Circuits.” Abstract Source: USPTO In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a bandgap reference circuit having a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that can receive a current from a node having a terminal voltage and […]

Nov 09, 2017
Patent Awarded to ECE Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded a patent for “Low Input Voltage Boost Converter with Peak Inductor Current Control and Offset Compensated Zero Detection.”