Sharad Sinha, PhD

Expertise: Biomedical embedded systems, biomedical electronics, bioinstrumentation, artificial intelligence, computing systems, wearable devices, systems security.

Sharad Sinha is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT Goa). He has a PhD degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and a Bachelor degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. He has held research appointments at HKUST, Hong Kong and Temasek Labs at NUS, Singapore.
He belongs to the 1st cohort of Singapore Stanford Biodesign Innovation Class that focused on the complete lifecycle of medical device development, from design to post market surveillance. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a recipient of 2017 IEEE/ACM William J McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award and a Best Paper Award nomination at CASES 2018. His research is focused on computer architecture and computing systems design with applications in medical science as well as assistive technologies. A student project under his guidance won the IEEE Student Grant from IEEE Standards University in 2018 for a project on assistive navigation for people with memory loss symptoms.