Kartikeya Murari

2850 N. Charles St.,
Apt. 3B,
Baltimore, MD 21218.

kartik@jhu.edu

Fields of study

$\bullet$ Functionalizing nanostructures based on surface chemistry.
$\bullet$ Interfacing cells/biomolecules to microelectronics at the nanoscale.
$\bullet$ VLSI design for sensor circuits.

Education

Graduate: MSE in Biomedical Engg. from Johns Hopkins University, 2004. Research work in Neuroengineering Lab, Adaptive Microsystems Lab and Nanostructured Materials Lab.
Undergraduate: B.Tech in Electrical Engg. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, 2002. Specialization in Microelectronics. Minor in Biomedical Engg.

Courses

Graduate (JHU School of Medicine): Molecules and Cells, Principles of Immunology
Graduate (JHU School of Engineering): Physiological Foundations of Biomedical Engg. I & II, Biomedical Instrumentation, Analog and Digital VLSI design, Electrochemistry, Kernel Machine Learning, Models of the Neuron, Finite Element Method.
Undergraduate (IIT Madras): Biomechanics, Medical Instrumentation, Biomedical Signal Processing, Biomedical Systems, Digital Circuits, Measurements and Instrumentation, Analog and Digital ICs, High Speed ICs, VLSI design, VLSI Technology

Research experience

$\bullet$ Research Assistant, Neuroengineering Lab, Johns Hopkins University. Sep 2002 to date. Working under Dr. Nitish Thakor on neural-instrumentation.
$\bullet$ Summer Intern, IBM India Research Labs. May 2001 to July 2001. Worked under Dr. Sudeshna Adak on Data Mining of Gene Clusters.

Publications

``16-channel Wide-Range VLSI Potentiostat Array'', M. Stanacevic, K. Murari, G. Cauwenberghs and N. Thakor, 1st IEEE International Workshop on BioMedical Circuits & Systems, 2004.
``Wide-Range, Picoampere-Sensitivity Multichannel VLSI Potentiostat for Neurotransmitter Sensing'', K. Murari, M. Stanacevic, G. Cauwenberghs and N. Thakor, 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2004.
``Spike Sorting with Support Vector Machines'', R. Vogelstein, K. Murari, P. Thakur, G. Cauwenberghs, S. Chakrabartty and C. Diehl, 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2004.
``Microfabrication and Characterization of a Polymer Modified Biological NO Sensor Array'', M. Naware, P.A. Passeraub, R.N. Orth, K. Murari, M. Paranjape, and N.V. Thakor, BioMEMs & Biomedical Nanotech WORLD 2003.
``MedMeSH Summarizer: Text Mining for Gene Clusters'', P. Kankar, S. Adak, A. Sarkar, K. Murari, and G. Sharma, Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2002.

Teaching experience

$\bullet$Teaching Assistant for Biomedical Instrumentation, Fall 2003. Involved guiding more than 20 students in an instrumentation lab building biomedical devices like ECG, EMG amplifiers, disability assist devices (e.g. cane for blind, keyboard for quadruplegics) etc.
$\bullet$Teaching Assistant for Physiological Foundations for Biomedical Engineering. Fall 2002, fall 2003. Involved guiding more than 100 students in a a lab studying biomechanics of the heart - the Starling relationship, Ionotropic state etc.

Awards and achievements

$\bullet$ Second prize in Whitaker Student Paper Contest at 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, 2004.
$\bullet$ Recipient of the Abel Wolman Graduate Fellowship 2004-05.
$\bullet$ Recipient of the JHU Center for Educational Resources Technology Fellowship 2004-05.
$\bullet$ Recipient of the Whitaker Biomedical Foundation Fellowship 2002-04.
$\bullet$ Ranked among top 0.25% of examinees in the IIT Joint Entrance Exam.
$\bullet$ Recipient of the President of India's award for excellent academic performance in 12th grade.