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Jose Joseph

Dr.Jose Joseph

Chair & Assistant Professor

Dr. Jose Joseph is the Chair of the School of Electronic Systems and Automation, Digital University Kerala (Former IIITM-K). Prior to joining IIITM-K, he was working as a post-doctoral researcher in E. L. Ginzton laboratory (Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, CA, USA. He also worked as a research associate in Center for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE) & Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Jose’s research spans the interdisciplinary domains of ultrasonics, microfabrication, and sensor technology. His work primarily focuses on the design and development of innovative ultrasound transducers for diverse applications such as medical imaging, biometric authentication, and airborne sensing. In parallel, he has led efforts in creating compact biosensors and precision sensing systems for smart agriculture. With more than seven years of experience in microfabrication, Jose’s expertise lies in translating ultrasonic principles into practical technologies—particularly in areas like neuromodulation, fingerprint recognition, and navigation using airborne ultrasound.

Jose heads the ‘Innovation Centre for Sensors, Actuators and Transducers (ICSAT)’, that focuses on developing novel sensors, actuators and transducers for societal good. For more information, kindly visit the lab website.

ICSAT Website

ICSAT has several sponsored Ph.D. positions available in the areas of biosensors, MEMS design and fabrication, ultrasound transducer development, etc. Interested candidates may kindly contact jose.joseph@duk.ac.in

Academic qualifications

  • Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from IIT Hyderabad, Telangana
  • M.Tech in VLSI Design from VNIT Nagpur, Maharashtra
  • B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kannur University

Work Experiences

  • Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford University [June 2019 to July 2020]
  • Research Associate, IISc Bangalore [Sept. 2018 to May 2019]
  • Research Associate, IIT Hyderabad [Nov. 2017 to Sept. 2018]

Areas of Interest

  • Ultrasonics
  • Microfabrication
  • Polymer and crystalline piezoelectrics
  • Sensors and Actuators

Journals

  • Nair, Nikila, A. V. Akshaya, Michael John Bosco, G. K. Ananthasuresh, and Jose Joseph. "A Robust Sensor for Inline pH Measurements." IEEE Sensors Journal (2024). DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3489659
  • Bhagavathi, K. Aditya, Satish Bonam, Jose Joseph, Karri Trinadha Rao, Shiv Govind Singh, and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari. "Silk-Aloe vera composite piezoelectric film: a new paradigm in eco-friendly piezoelectrics." IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (2024). DOI: 10.1109/JFLEX.2024.3425812
  • Lekshmi, V., and Jose Joseph. "Geometry Optimization to Enhance the Range of Detection of Fringing Field-Based Capacitive Proximity Sensors." IEEE Sensors Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3407787
  • A. Bhagavathi, S. Bonam, Jose Joseph, S. G. Singh and S. R. K. Vanjari, "Silk Thin Film-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting Applications," in IEEE Sensors Letters. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3331725
  • Bonam, Satish, K. Aditya Bhagavathi, Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh, and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari. "An Ultra-Flexible Tactile Sensor Using Silk Piezoelectric Thin Film." IEEE Sensors Journal (2023).
  • Satish Bonam*, Jose Joseph*, C Hemanth Kumar, Asisa Kumar Panigrahi, Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, and Shiv Govind Singh, "Fabrication of On-Silicon Aperture Coupled Patch Antenna Through Micromachining and Cu-Cu Thermocompression Bonding", IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing DOI: 10.1109/TSM.2022.3201300 (*equal contribution)
  • Nikila Nair, Akshaya A V, Jose Joseph “An In-situ Soil pH Sensor with Solid Electrodes”, IEEE Sensors Letters, Volume: 6, Issue: 8, August 2022
  • Jose Joseph, Bo Ma, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub. "Applications of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: A Comprehensive Review." IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2021).
  • Rakesh, N. S., Alishan Ahmed, Jose Joseph, Rajesh S. Aouti, Mihir Mogra, Ankur Kushwaha, R. Ashwin, Sudhakar M. Rao, and G. K. Ananthasuresh. "Analysis of Heat Paths in Dual-Probe-Heat-Pulse Soil-Moisture Sensors for Improved Performance." Sensors and Actuators A: Physical (2020): 112520.
  • Suryasnata Tripathy*, Jose Joseph*, Dhruv Das, Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, AVSS Narayana Rao, Shiv Govind Singh, “Miniaturized electrochemical platform with integrated PDMS reservoir for label-free DNA hybridization detection using nanostructured Au electrodes”, RSC Analyst 144.23 (2019): 6953-6961 (*Equal contribution)
  • Suryasnata Tripathy*, Jose Joseph*, Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, AVSS Narayana Rao, Shiv Govind Singh, “Flexible ITO electrode with Gold nanostructures for facile DNA hybridization detection” IEEE sensors letters 2.4 (2018): 1-4 (*Equal contribution)
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Using Silk Piezoelectric Thin Film”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 39.5 (2018): pp. 749-752
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh, and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari. “Fabrication and characterization of SU-8-based capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer for airborne applications.” SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS 17.1 (2018): pp. 015003.
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Leveraging Innate Piezoelectricity of Ultra-Smooth Silk Thin Films for Flexible and Wearable Sensor Applications”, IEEE Sensors journal, 17(24) (2017), pp. 8306-13
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Ultra-Smooth E-beam Evaporated Amorphous Silicon Thin Films- A Viable Alternative for PECVD Amorphous Silicon Thin Films for MEMS Applications”, Elsevier Materials Letters 197 (2017): pp. 52-55

Patents

  • Ma, Bo, Jose Joseph, Kamyar Firouzi, and Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub. "Contoured electrodes for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers." U.S. Patent 11,260,424, issued March 1, 2022.
  • Ma, Bo, Kamyar Firouzi, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, and Jose Joseph. "Pulse train excitation for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers." U.S. Patent 11,173,520, issued November 16, 2021.
  • Bo Ma, Jose Joseph, Kamyar Firouzi, and Butrus. T. Khuri-Yakub contoured electrode and/or pulse train excitation for capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer, WIPO Publication No: WO/2021/150519, issued July 29, 2021
  • Nikila Nair, Akshaya A V, Jose Joseph, and G K Ananthasuresh, pH SENSOR WITH SOLID ELECTRODES, Indian patent no. 525781 granted on March 14, 2024
  • Joseph Tharion, John Eric Steephen, Jose Joseph, and Vijay Anand Ismavel, A GRAVITY-DRIVEN APPARATUS FOR BLOOD SALVAGE AND AUTOTRANSFUSION, Indian patent no. 539411, granted on May 27, 2024

Book chapters

  • Mogra, Mihir, Rajesh Aouti, N. S. Rakesh, Alishan Ahmed, R. Ashwin, Jose Joseph, and G. K. Ananthasuresh. "Analysis of a Soil-Moisture Sensor for Potential Failure Modes and Mass Manufacturing." In Machines, Mechanism and Robotics, pp. 1157-1167. Springer, Singapore, 2022.
  • Jose Joseph, “MEMS-based flexible sensors” Encyclopedia of Materials: Electronics, pp. 129-137, Oxford: Elsevier

Conference proceedings

  • Remya Eapen, and Jose Joseph, “Towards the point of care detection of Phytophthora palmivora, the coconut bud rot pathogen”, 35th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors 19-22 May 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal
  • Lekshmi V, Ranjith K R, and Jose Joseph, “Next-gen e-skin: transforming prosthetics with multimodal sensor having two-terminal readout”, 35th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors 19-22 May 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal
  • Nikila Nair, Soniya Varghese, Remya Annie Eapen, and Jose Joseph, “An Inexpensive Electrochemical Sensor for the Detection of Acetaminophen”, proceedings of the ISSS International Conference on Micro, Nano, and Smart Systems: IC-MNSS 2024, IISc Bengaluru, India, Springer nature singapore
  • Lekshmi V, Anex K Paul, Nandana P S, and Jose Joseph, “rGO@ZnO Nanocomposite-based Resistive Humidity Sensor”, proceedings of the ISSS International Conference on Micro, Nano, and Smart Systems: IC-MNSS 2024, IISc Bengaluru, India, Springer nature singapore
  • A. Bhagavathi, S. Bonam, Jose Joseph, S. G. Singh and S. R. K. Vanjari, “Silk Thin Film-Based Triboelectric Nanogenertor for Energy Harvesting Applications” In IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON) 2024, BITS Goa, India
  • Akshaya, A. V., Nair, N., Bosco, M. J., Ananthasuresh, G. K., and Jose Joseph. “Soil pH Sensing with an All-Solid-Electrode Sensor”. In IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON) 2023, Bengaluru, India
  • Satish Bonam, Jose Joseph, Aditya Bhagavathi, Shiv Govind Singh, and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Silk Piezoelectric Tactile Sensors: The Way Forward to Developing Intelligent Implantable Sensors”, Accepted for publication in International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2022, Austin, Texas, USA
  • Jose Joseph, Manish Kumar, Suryasnata Tripathy, G D V Santhosh Kumar, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “A Highly Flexible Tactile Sensor with Self-poled Electrospun PVDF Nanofiber” IEEE Sensors conference, 2018, New Delhi, India
  • Jose Joseph, Manish Kumar, Suryasnata Tripathy, G D V Santhosh Kumar, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Exploring the Piezoelectric Property of Electrospun Silk Nanofibers for Sensing Applications”, IEEE Sensors conference, 2018, New Delhi, India
  • D V Santhosh Kumar Gunapu, Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Selective Anisotropic Dry Etching of Piezoelectric Silk Microstructures Using Oxygen Plasma Ashing” IEEE Sensors conference, 2018, New Delhi, India
  • Lisa Sarkar, Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh, and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari. “Modeling and Fabrication Aspects of PVDF as a Membrane Material for Air Borne PMUT Applications.” IEEE Sensors conference, 2018, New Delhi, India
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Analysis of Low Temperature E-beam Evaporated Amorphous Silicon Thin Films for MEMS Applications”, 3rd International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE 2016), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • Jose Joseph, Sai Saraswathi, Anshika Aggarwal, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Silk Piezoelectric Thin Films: Materials to Devices”, IEEE Sensors conference, 2016, Orlando, USA
  • G D V Santhosh Kumar, Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “A Novel Soft Lithography Based Approach for Fabricating Carbon Nano Tube Based Flexible Three-Dimensional Microelectrode Tip Array for Functional Electrical Simulation Applications”, 18th International Symposium on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD-2015), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • Jose Joseph, G D V Santhosh Kumar, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Free-Standing, Ultra-Smooth, Sacrificial Layer Independent SU-8 Membranes for MEMS Applications”, 18th International Symposium on Physics of Semiconductor Devices (IWPSD-2015), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • Bastin Joseph, Jose Joseph and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “A Low Power Area Efficient FPGA Based Beamforming Technique for 1-D CMUT Arrays”, 37th international IEEE EMBC 2015, Milano, Italy
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “Fabrication of SU-8 Based Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer for Low Frequency Therapeutic Applications”, 37th international IEEE EMBC 2015, Milano, Italy
  • Jose Joseph, Shiv Govind Singh and Siva Rama Krishna Vanjari, “A Low Pull-In SU-8 Based Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer for Medical Imaging Applications” 36th international IEEE EMBC 2014, Chicago, USA
  • Jose Joseph and Rajendra Patrikar: “Impact of Fin Width and Graded Channel Doping on the Performance of 22nm SOI FinFET” VLSI Design and Test: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 382 (2013), pp 153-159.