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Principal Investigator
Deblina Sarkar
Assistant Professor at MIT
AT&T Career Development Chair Professor at MIT Media Arts and Sciences
Founder and Director of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research lab
email - deblina@mit.edu
Prof. Deblina Sarkar is a trans-disciplinary innovator, initially trained in electrical engineering and physics and then, has traversed the realm of biology, driven by curiosity and belief that truly disruptive technologies can immerge at the interface of diverse research arenas. Her inventions include, among others, a 6-atom thick channel quantum-mechanical transistor overcoming fundamental power limitations, an ultra-sensitive label-free biosensor and technology for nanoscale deciphering of biological building blocks of brain. Her PhD dissertation was honored as one of the top 3 dissertations throughout USA and Canada in the field of Mathematics, Physical sciences and all departments of Engineering. She is the recipient of numerous other awards and recognitions, including the Lancaster Award, Technology Review’s one of the Top 10 Innovators Under 35 from India, NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology. Continue Reading....
Administrative Assistant
Post Docs
Monochura Saha
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Media Lab
Monochura Saha is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotreck group at MIT Media Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree (B.Sc, Honors) in Chemistry at Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, India. After graduating, he qualified for JAM and was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT-Madras) for his Master’s degree (M.Sc). During his Master’s work, he worked in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry to develop glucose based drug molecules under the guidance of Prof. Indrapal Singh Aidhen. After graduating, he qualified UGC-NET, GATE, and received a prestigious Inspire Doctoral Fellowship, and joined as a Ph.D. scholar at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER-Kolkata, India). For his Ph.D. he worked in interdisciplinary chemistry for his thesis titled “Dynamic Molecular Catalysts Based on Molecular Photoswitches”. He obtained his Ph.D. in December 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay. After completing his Ph.D. he worked as a Project Assistant in the same group and worked on Photoregulated Drug molecules for antibacterial and anticancer activity.
Ray Lee
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Media Lab
Ray is a neuroscientist working with Prof. Deblina Sarkar on developing neuroscience and translational research using nano-devices. Before joining the NCB group, Ray was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, piloting research projects on thalamocortical substrate of inference and stress controllability with Prof. Michael Halassa. Before MIT, Ray completed Ph.D. studies with Prof. Bernd Kuhn and Prof. Greg Stephens at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, studying neuronal population dynamics that yield spontaneous behaviors and socially induced stress development in mice. Before then, Ray did B.S. and M.S. with Prof. Chen-Tung Yen at National Taiwan University, studying adjustments of cerebellar sensory responses to active and passive motions in rats and the related neuronal projecting organizations. In the meanwhile, Ray examined neurotransmitter modulations in the dorsal raphé nucleus for controlling mouse aggressive behaviors, with Prof. Tsuyoshi Koide and Dr. Aki Takahashi in National Institute of Genetics. Ray is broadly interested in science, philosophy, arts, and traveling. Ray’s ultimate goal is to approach neural theories that explain behaviors and phenomenology of a conscious agent.
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