Dr. Praveen Pasupathy is a Senior Research Scientist in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his B.E. in Instrumentation Engineering from the University of Mumbai. He continued at UT Austin as a Postdoctoral Fellow and has since led research programs as a Principal Investigator at the Microelectronics Research Center (MRC).

Dr. Pasupathy's research is motivated by the problem of scale-agnostic transduction and transmission in harsh and unconventional environments — sensing and transmission systems where the physics, the scale, or the operating conditions defeat conventional approaches. His work couples electromagnetic, mechanical, chemical, and acoustic phenomena into integrated sensing architectures — from individual transducers through packaged, field-deployable systems — with emphasis on transduction mechanisms, signal transmission, and the material and packaging strategies that make systems functional where others fail. He approaches sensing problems at whatever scale the problem demands, from nanofabricated devices to infrastructure-scale deployed systems, with applications spanning structural and civil infrastructure monitoring, geophysical and subsurface sensing, and chemical and biological detection. At the frontier of this work lie composite and functional sensing materials, programmable polymers, and molecular encoding and memory — systems where the material itself becomes the transduction and storage medium.

Dr. Pasupathy has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on programs supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the W.M. Keck Foundation, and industry partners.