Sameer of Tufts University

This talk presents a vision for "human-in-the-loop" precision medicine enabled by advances in wearable, ingestible, and microneedle-based bioelectronics. The speaker will introduce paper-based nearables for at-home biochemical sensing, smart textile dressings that monitor wound status and deliver drugs on demand, and microneedle systems for integrated sensing and therapy. He will also highlight their ingestible lab-on-a-pill devices that noninvasively sample the gut microbiome with spatial resolution, offering a new window into host-microbe interactions beyond fecal analysis. Together, these technologies open the door to personalized, real-time, and minimally invasive diagnostics and therapies—reshaping how we monitor and manage health.

Biography:

Sameer Sonkusale is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University, where he holds joint appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering. He also served as a visiting professor at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital of the Harvard Medical School during 2011-2012 and 2018-2019, respectively. He currently directs an interdisciplinary research group focusing on devices, circuits, and systems for healthcare, biology, life sciences, and the environment. Dr. Sonkusale earned his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has received several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010. He was also honored with a Distinguished Alumni award from his alma mater, BITS Pilani. Dr. Sonkusale has served on the editorial boards of several prominent journals, including Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, PLoS One, and Electronic Letters. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a senior member of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the IEEE.

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