Sensors, Circuits, and Systems for Scientific Instruments

Soumyajit Mandal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was a Research Scientist with Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge (2010 to 2014), an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (2014 to 2019), and an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA (2019 to 2021). He is currently a Senior Engineer in the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. He has over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has been awarded 24 patents. His research interests include low-power analog and RF circuits, embedded systems, magnetic resonance sensors, and precision instrumentation for various biomedical and sensor interface applications. Dr. Mandal received the President of India Gold Medal in 2002, the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2009, the T. Keith Glennan Fellowship in 2016, and the IIT Kharagpur Young Alumni Achievers Award in 2018. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

• Section 1: Fundamentals1 Review of Linear Systems2 General Properties of Measurement Systems Section 2: Devices3 Review of Semiconductor Device Physics4 Models of Electronic Devices5 Sensors and Actuators6 Models of Sensors and Actuators7 Noise in Devices Section 3: Circuits8 Noise in Circuits9 Low-Noise Front-End Design10 Precision Circuit Techniques11 High-Power Front-End Design12 Oscillators and Frequency References13 Digitization Section 4: Signals and Data Processing14 Review of Digital Signal Processing15 Embedded Processing16 Optimal Filtering and Signal Detection17 Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Section 5: System Design and Integration18 System-Level Design and Simulation19 System Integration and Deployment Section 6: Applications20 Measurements in Extreme Environments21 Medical Imaging: MRI22 Medical Imaging: Ultrasound23 Radio Astronomy24 High-Energy Physics25 Detection of Gravitational Waves