National Institute of Technology Rourkela

राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राउरकेला

ଜାତୀୟ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ରାଉରକେଲା

An Institute of National Importance

Faculty Profile

ORCID ID
Scopus ID
Researcher ID
Google Scholar ID

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sougata Kumar Kar received B.Tech. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Haldia Institute of Technology in 2000, M.Tech. degree in Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2006 and Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur in 2013. He joined NIT Silchar as an Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department in 2014. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department EEE, NTU, Singapore for one year. Then he joined Electronics and Communication Engineering department, NIT Rourkela in 2015 and now working as an Associate Professor. Dr. Kar has published 15 journal papers in reputed international journals. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. His research interests include analog IC design, instrumentation, sensor interfacing circuits, MEMS capacitive sensors, accelerometers, low power biomedical and neuromorphic circuits.

EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group
  • VLSI and Embedded Systems, Instrumentation
Areas of Interest
  • Analog IC Design
  • Sensor Interfacing Circuits
  • Low Power Bio-Medical Circuits

Sougata Kumar Kar Associate Professor

Electronics and Communication Engineering

kars@nitrkl.ac.in

0661 - 246 2473

Biosketch

24

PUBLICATIONS

5

SPONSORED PROJECTS

10

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

5

CONTINUING EDUCATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sougata Kumar Kar

Associate Professor

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Room Number: EC-127

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Sundargarh, Odisha, India - 769008

2013

Ph.D.
Sensor Interfacing Circuits
IIT Kharagpur

2006

M.Tech
Instrumentation & Electronics Engineering
Jadavpur University

2000

B.Tech
Instrumentation Engineering
Haldia Institute of Technology

Teaching Experience
  • Electronics & Instrumentation,  NIT Rourkela,   28 Jan 2015 - Present
  • Electronics & Instrumentation,  NIT Silchar,   11 Mar 2013 - 06 Jan 2014
Post Doctoral Research Experience
  • Neuromorphic Circuits,  NTU Singapore,   27 Jan 2014 - 26 Jan 2015
Industrial Experience
  • Biomedical Instruments,  Life Guards medical Devices Pvt. Ltd.,   15 Aug 2000 - 12 Nov 2003
Laboratory Development
  • Integrated System Design Lab (ISDL),  Dept. of ECE, NIT Rourkela,   Development of integrated sensor system with Micro-sensors and interfacing circuits together. Development of sensor interfacing ASIC, conditioning circuits, analog IC design. IC fabrication and testing.

Development of Pressure Measurement Module for Chamber Pressure Measurement. Armament Research Bhavan (ARMREB)
  • Principal Investigator
  • 48
  • Running   Sponsored
Development of a closed-loop integrated MEMS capacitive accelerometer for inertial and navigation systems. SERB - DST
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Intelligent Surveillance Data Retriever (ISDR) for Smart City application IMPRINT INDIA
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Development of pH based portable arsenic bio-sensor exploiting arsenic oxidizing bacteria DST
  • Co-Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored
Low Power Analog Front-End ASIC For Portable Bio-Potential Acquisition System SERB
  • Principal Investigator
  • 36
  • Completed   Sponsored

7
GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX 6
GOOGLE SCHOLAR I10-INDEX 0
SCOPUS H-INDEX
Total Publications: 24
View All Publications

R. Tirupathi and S. K. Kar,"A 200 µg/vHz, 2.7 milli-g offset differential interface for capacitive micro accelerometer", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol.68, no.6, pp.1753-1757, IEEE, June 2021, 10.1109/TCSII.2020.3041614       Article

R. Tirupathi and S. K. Kar,"On-chip implementable autocalibration of sensor offset for differential capacitive sensor interfaces", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol.70, pp.1-9, IEEE 2021, 10.1109/TIM.2020.3023174.       Article

R. Tirupathi and S. K. Kar,"Low-offset differential output switched-capacitor interface for micro-capacitive acceleration sensors", IET Science, Measurement & Technology, vol.15, no.3, pp.279-291, Wiley, May 2021, 10.1049/smt2.12029       Article

P. Biswal, S. K. Kar, and B. Mukherjee,"Design and optimization of high-performance through hole based MEMS energy harvester using piezomumps", Journal of Electronic Materials, vol.50, no.1, pp.375-388, Springer, January 2021, 10.1007/s11664-020-08528-6       Article

A. Panda and S. K. Kar,"A 26 µW area efficient bio-potential acquisition system with feed-forward DC offset cancellation", AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, vol.136, no.7, pp.153754, Elsevier 2021, 10.1016/j.aeue.2021.153754       Article

Emerging Devices, Circuits & Systems for Next Generation Biomedical Applications Electronics and Communication Engineering (Workshop)
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:AWARENESS AND CHALLENGES (IPRAC-2022) Computer Science and Engineering (Workshop)
Micro-sensors and Interfacing Circuits Electronics and Communication Engineering (Workshop)
Analog and Digital VLSI Design Flow and Embedded System Design Electronics and Communication Engineering (Workshop)
Microsensors and Signal Conditioning (MSSC-2016) Electronics and Communication Engineering (Short-term Course)

  • EC3303 : Instrumentation Devices {Theory}
  • EC334 : Instrumentation Devices {Theory}
  • EC436 : Biomedical Instrumentation {Theory}
  • EC6202 : Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits {Theory}
  • EC622 : Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits {Theory}
  • EC6303 : Advanced Instrumentation and Signal Conditioning {Theory}
  • EC637 : Medical Instrumentation {Theory}
  • EC781 : Special Topic in Electronics and Communication Engineering – III {Theory}
  • EC276 : Digital Electronics Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC3706 : Instrumentation Devices Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC469 : Virtual Instrumentation Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC476 : Analytical and Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC6276 : Analog and Mixed Signal IC Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC6371 : Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC663 : VLSI Devices and Process Simulation Laboratory (ATLAS, Cadence) {Practical}
  • EC676 : Analog and Mixed Signal IC Laboratory {Practical}
  • EC773 : Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory {Practical}

Ph.D. Students [9]
Design and Implementation of Low Offset Sensor Interface for Differential Capacitive Sensors
Rakesh Tirupathi
Enrolled: Jan 2016
Graduated :  2021
Supervisor
Study of Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment due to Arsenic Contamination in Bihar, India, for its Detection and Bioremediation
Sourav Maity
Enrolled: Jan 2019
Graduated :  2023
Co-Supervisor
Design of low-power analog front-end ASIC for ECG acquisition system
Apurbaranjan Panda
Enrolled: Feb 2017
Thesis Submitted
Supervisor
MEMS sensor
Priyabrata Biswal
Enrolled: Nov 2017
Continuing
Supervisor
VLSI Circuit Design for Sensor Signal Acquisition
Krishna Chaitanya Rayasam
Enrolled: Jan 2018
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Design and Implementation of On-chip Neural Classifier
Vikas Kumar Sinha
Enrolled: Jan 2020
Continuing
Supervisor
Sensor Interfacing Circuits
Ipsita Dash
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Analog Integrated Circuit Design for low power biomedical circuits
Anusmita Kakati
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Supervisor
Analog Circuit Design, VLSI & Embedded System Design, Data Converter design
Deepika Kumaradasan
Enrolled: Aug 2021
Continuing
Co-Supervisor
Executive Ph.D. Students [1]
Signal Acquisition, Signal Processing, Embedded Systems and IoT
Saurabh Kesari
Enrolled: Aug 2023
Continuing
Supervisor

Awards And Honours
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,   2021
Memberships / Fellowships
  • IEEE, IEEE Instrumentation Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society,   2021