Rahul Sarpeshkar

Rahul Sarpeshkar is a Professor of Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Physics, and Molecular & Systems Biology at Dartmouth College, holding the Thomas E. Kurtz Professorship and chairing the Neukom Computational Science Cluster. His research bridges analog circuits with quantum physics, synthetic biology, and ultra-low-power systems.

• BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics from MIT (1995)
• PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech (1998)

His research focuses on analog synthetic biology, quantum circuit design, and bio-inspired supercomputing, emphasizing noise, thermodynamics, and energy efficiency. He develops cytomorphic chips to model biochemical networks and quantum-inspired circuits for spectrum analysis.

Recent work integrates quantum and classical computation for biological simulations, drug cocktail formulation, and ATP energy measurement in living cells. Patents highlight innovations in quantum emulation and medical devices.

Scientific awards include:

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2018)
• IEEE Fellow (2018)
• NSF CAREER Award
• ONR Young Investigator Award
• Packard Fellow Award
• Junior Bose Teaching Award, MIT

He leads a wet lab for synthetic microbial circuit implementation and a dry lab for quantum and nanoelectronics, mentoring a multidisciplinary team of physicists, bioengineers, and computer scientists.