He is the recipient of The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE (CASS), and is the author of the books "Silicon-on-Sapphire Circuits and Systems, Sensor and Biosensor interfaces", and "Biomedical Circuits and System, Integrated Instrumentation". He founded TeraDeep, a company focused on the design of deep neural network processors, and FWDNXT, a company to deliver the next generation synthetic brains for artificial intelligence.