Rahul Sarpeshkar

10.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
136 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Rahul Sarpeshkar is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rahul Sarpeshkar has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 71 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rahul Sarpeshkar's work include Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design (50 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (26 papers). Rahul Sarpeshkar is often cited by papers focused on Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design (50 papers), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (26 papers). Rahul Sarpeshkar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and South Korea. Rahul Sarpeshkar's co-authors include Soumyajit Mandal, Howard E. Katz, Zhenan Bao, Woradorn Wattanapanitch, B. K. Crone, H. Sebastian Seung, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, Misha Mahowald, Rodney J. Douglas and Y.-Y. Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rahul Sarpeshkar

131 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Large-scale complementary integrated circuits based on organic transistors

2000 1.1k citations Rahul Sarpeshkar et al. Nature profile →
Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a cortex-inspired silicon circuit

2000 822 citations Richard H. R. Hahnloser, Rahul Sarpeshkar et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rahul Sarpeshkar United States	44	4.9k	2.9k	1.6k	1.3k	769	136	7.7k
Mohamad Sawan Canada	46	5.5k 1.1×	4.7k 1.6×	2.5k 1.6×	1.9k 1.5×	392 0.5×	800	10.1k
Boris Murmann United States	45	6.5k 1.3×	6.5k 2.3×	790 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	346 0.4×	236	9.7k
Jacob T. Robinson United States	39	3.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	396 0.3×	653 0.8×	132	7.5k
Yusuf Leblebici Switzerland	38	6.9k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	504 0.4×	132 0.2×	473	8.2k
G.T.A. Kovacs United States	44	2.5k 0.5×	4.8k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	735 0.6×	559 0.7×	165	7.5k
Gert Cauwenberghs United States	49	6.1k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	3.5k 2.2×	4.3k 3.3×	194 0.3×	378	11.7k
Ping Xie China	30	1.7k 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	752 0.5×	546 0.4×	338 0.4×	170	5.3k
Euisik Yoon United States	45	2.2k 0.5×	3.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	937 1.2×	206	7.2k
Lidan Wang China	45	3.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	957 0.6×	831 0.6×	221 0.3×	348	7.1k
Hadi Heidari United Kingdom	33	2.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.7×	443 0.3×	519 0.4×	154 0.2×	275	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rahul Sarpeshkar

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Deng, Yijie, et al.. (2025). Growth-coupled continuous directed evolution by MutaT7 enables efficient and automated enzyme engineering. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(4). e0249124–e0249124. 1 indexed citations

Sarpeshkar, Rahul, et al.. (2025). Emulation of Density Matrix Dynamics With Classical Analog Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. 6. 1–16. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Yijie, et al.. (2025). Gene syntaxes modulate gene expression and circuit behavior on plasmids. Journal of Biological Engineering. 19(1). 25–25.

Deng, Yijie, et al.. (2023). Drug Cocktail Formulation via Circuit Design. IEEE Transactions on Molecular Biological and Multi-Scale Communications. 9(1). 28–48.

Deng, Yijie, et al.. (2022). Rapid modeling of experimental molecular kinetics with simple electronic circuits instead of with complex differential equations. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 947508–947508. 3 indexed citations

Deng, Yijie, et al.. (2021). Cytomorphic Electronic Systems: A review and perspective. IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. 15(6). 41–53. 5 indexed citations

Medley, Kyle, et al.. (2020). A compiler for biological networks on silicon chips. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(9). e1008063–e1008063. 5 indexed citations

Sarpeshkar, Rahul, et al.. (2020). The Merging of Biological and Electronic Circuits. iScience. 23(11). 101688–101688. 15 indexed citations

Weiss, Ron, et al.. (2019). An Artificial Tissue Homeostasis Circuit Designed via Analog Circuit Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 13(3). 540–553. 3 indexed citations

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Zeng, Ji, et al.. (2019). A Novel Bioelectronic Reporter System in Living Cells Tested with a Synthetic Biological Comparator. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7275–7275. 9 indexed citations

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Daniel, Ramiz, Jacob R. Rubens, Rahul Sarpeshkar, & Timothy K. Lu. (2013). Synthetic analog computation in living cells. Nature. 497(7451). 619–623. 316 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Benjamin I., J. Kedzierski, & Rahul Sarpeshkar. (2012). A Glucose Fuel Cell for Implantable Brain–Machine Interfaces. PLoS ONE. 7(6). e38436–e38436. 183 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Benjamin I., Lorenzo Turicchia, Woradorn Wattanapanitch, Thomas J. Davidson, & Rahul Sarpeshkar. (2012). Efficient Universal Computing Architectures for Decoding Neural Activity. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e42492–e42492. 15 indexed citations

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Sarpeshkar, Rahul, et al.. (2011). An Energy-Efficient, Adiabatic Electrode Stimulator With Inductive Energy Recycling and Feedback Current Regulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. 6(1). 1–14. 89 indexed citations

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Sarpeshkar, Rahul. (2009). Neuromorphic and biomorphic engineering systems. 8 indexed citations

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Long, Michael A., et al.. (2009). Wireless Neural Stimulation in Freely Behaving Small Animals. Journal of Neurophysiology. 102(1). 598–605. 44 indexed citations

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Sarpeshkar, Rahul, Christopher Salthouse, Ji‐Jon Sit, et al.. (2005). An Ultra-Low-Power Programmable Analog Bionic Ear Processor. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 52(4). 711–727. 124 indexed citations

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Sarpeshkar, Rahul, et al.. (2003). Predictive comparators with adaptive control.. IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs. 50. 579–588. 1 indexed citations

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Hahnloser, Richard H. R., Rahul Sarpeshkar, Misha Mahowald, Rodney J. Douglas, & H. Sebastian Seung. (2000). Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a cortex-inspired silicon circuit. Nature. 405(6789). 947–951. 822 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sarpeshkar, Rahul, Wyeth Bair, & Christof Koch. (1992). Visual Motion Computation in Analog VLSI Using Pulses. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 5. 781–788. 20 indexed citations

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