Deblina Sarkar is an AT&T Career Development Chair Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She heads the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group and carries out trans-disciplinary research fusing engineering, applied physics, and biology to develop disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and create new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis. 

Her inventions include, among others, the first non-surgical brain implant that autonomously recognizes the target, a 6-atom thick channel quantum-mechanical transistor overcoming fundamental limitations in power, and ultra-miniaturized antenna that can work wirelessly even from inside a living cell. 

Her PhD dissertation was honored as one of the top 3 dissertations throughout the 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 Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 from India, NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology, Innovative Young Engineer Recognition from National Academy of Engineers, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award with the highest and rarely achieved impact score, the MIND Prize , the Science News 10 Scientists to Watch, the Distinguished Scientist Award and many others.