- Baibhab Chatterjee won the 2026 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors.
- His research addresses battery life, charging and connectivity in electronics.
- Chatterjee started at UF in 2022 and is now ECE’s Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor.
Described by his department chair as one of the most impactful early career faculty members in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Baibhab Chatterjee, Ph.D., has been awarded the college’s 2026 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors.
Chatterjee joined the University of Florida in 2022 as an ECE assistant professor. His background is in electrical, electronics and telecommunication engineering. He holds a doctorate degree from Purdue University, and, before academia, he worked at Intel and IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
He is now ECE’s Nelms Rising Star Endowed Professor whose research focuses on easing healthcare challenges.
“Dr. Chatterjee’s research excellence is undeniable,” noted ECE Chair Mark Tehranipoor. “His research is scientifically rigorous and application-driven, with results that span theory, integrated-circuit design and experimentally validated systems.”
In just over three years, Chatterjee built an externally funded program at the intersection of biomedical circuits and systems, secure/low-power hardware and the emerging Internet of Bodies (IoB) research.
“Most of today’s medical electronics suffer from issues related to short battery life, long charging times, unimodal edge computing and disruption in connectivity. Dr. Chatterjee’s research systematically aims to explore fundamental scientific and engineering challenges in powering, data transfer and multi-modal AI within these devices,” Tehranipoor said.
In his nomination letter, Tehranipoor stressed the importance of Chatterjee’s research in a healthcare climate that depends on innovative, cost-effective and user-friendly technological solutions.
Chatterjee said the award is a strong motivator for his research group, as they continue building technologies to translate circuit and system innovations into meaningful impacts in healthcare, security and next-generation connected devices.
“I am deeply honored to receive the HWCOE 2026 Excellence Award for Assistant Professors,” Chatterjee said. “This is especially meaningful because I see it as a recognition not only of my work, but also of the students, collaborators, mentors, department leadership, as well as the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering ecosystem that helped make my research program grow.”