Soumyasanta Laha

Prof. Laha is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering in Lyles College of Engineering. He earned a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University, USA in 2014 focusing on low power mm-wave integrated circuit design in CMOS and advanced CMOS (FinFET) technologies for wireless network on chip. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics (Honors) from the University of Calcutta, India, an M.Sc. in Embedded Digital Systems with distinction from the University of Sussex, U.K. He has successfully completed a Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Before joining California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) as a tenure-track faculty in 2018, he worked in various research level positions at Ohio University, USA, Intel Corporation, Austria, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India and Newcastle University, U.K. Prior to his Ph.D, he has worked in industry in India and the U.K for several years primarily in the area of analog electronics and embedded systems/software (RTOS). He has more than 35 refereed publications and holds an invention disclosure. He was the recipient of the endowed Stocker Research Fellowship at Ohio University. At Fresno State, he was one of the recipients of Provost's Most Promising New Faculty Award. As a principal investigator at Fresno State, his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), CSU Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) & Fresno-Merced Future of Food (F3) Innovation Program.