Honors

Prof. Deblina Sarkar

• Featured in Association for Women in Science (AWIS) News Brief (2022)


• Received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award.


• Awarded the Perfect and Rarely Achieved Impact Score by National Institute of Health


• Featured as the “Explorer of the Nano Age” by MIT.nano which highlighted eight pioneering nanotechnology researchers at MIT who are working to make our world a better place


• Recognized as an Innovative Early Career Engineer by National Academy of Engineering


• Awarded the 2022 IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Early Career Award in Nanotechnology


• Recognized as a leading next generation scientist by United For Medical Research


• Featured in IEEE Electron Device Society's newsletter


• Received iCANX Young Scientists Award 2021


• Featured by Imagination in Action: series highlighting some of the world’s most compelling people


• Deblina shared her journey from nanoelectronics to neuroscience & the formation of her research group in a featured article in neuron.
  
  
• Received the Young Scientist Excellence Award at Microsystems and Nanoengineering Young Scientists Forum (the first engineering journal launched by Nature).


• Received Distinguished Alumnus Award as a "Young Achiever" from Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad


• Named to Technology Review's list of India's Top 10 Innovators Under Age 35


• Won the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award            


• Named MIT Translational Fellow: aiming to translate academic discoveries into clinical devices, 2017


• Deblina Sarkar’s invention of few atoms thin-channel quantum transistor defying fundamental limits was featured by the National Academy of Engineering in their Engineering Innovation Podcast and Radio Series as “Reinventing the Transistor"



• My dissertation honored as one of the top 3 dissertations throughout USA and Canada in the field of Mathematics, Physical sciences and Engineering by the Council of Graduate Schools (2016)


• Lancaster Award for the best PhD Dissertation in the field of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering at UCSB in the period 2014-2016


• Received Materials Research Society's Graduate Student Award (2015)


• Deblina Sarkar selected as one of the four scienstists worldwide to present a master class on physics in structural biology and medical diagnostics at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting


• Named a "Rising Star" in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science by MIT (2015)


• One of the 3 winners of Falling Walls Lab Young Innovator's Award at UC San Diego(2015)


• Invented quantum-mechanical transistor which overcomes fundamental power limitations: published in Nature (2015)






• One of the 4 young researchers from USA honored as "Bright Mind" and invited to speak at the KAUST-NSF Conference (2015)


• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB (2014)


• Work on ultra-sensitive electrical biosensor highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology (2012)


• Only researcher from the Americas and one of the 3 students worldwide to receive the prestigious 2011 IEEE Electron Devices Society’s PhD Fellowship Award (2011)




• US Presidential Fellowship for pursuing graduate research (2008)


• Outstanding Doctoral Candidate Fellowship (2008)


• Best Female Student Award by Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad (2008)


• Best Student Paper Award in All India Paper Presentation Competition “Vyakhan” (2008)


• National scholarship for outstanding performance in the high-school examination (2003)