Ravinder Dahiya

Ravinder Dahiya is an Indian-born scientist, electrical engineer and roboticist who is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He is known globally for his multidisciplinary research on electronic skin, flexible and printed electronics, tactile sensing, and their applications in robotics and interactive systems, prosthetics, and wearable systems. He is widely recognized for pioneering work that bridges materials science, printed electronics, and human–machine interaction. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and served as President of the IEEE Sensors Council (2022–2023).

Career Following his doctorate, Dahiya was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy. Following this he was researcher at University of Cambridge and from there he joined the University of Glasgow as a faculty member in the James Watt School of Engineering, where he became Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Research Fellow. At Glasgow, he directed the Electronics Systems Design Centre (ESDC) and led the Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) research group. His group also developed a solar-powered e-skin that uses an array of miniaturised solar cells for both energy generation and touch sensing, eliminating the need for dedicated touch sensors.

In 2022, his group published work demonstrating a printed neuromorphic e-skin with synaptic transistors that enabled a robotic hand to sense stimuli and process tactile data locally, analogous to the human peripheral nervous system. The work was covered by Scientific American, the University of Glasgow, and The Tribune.

Flexible and printed electronics Dahiya's group works on fabricating electronic devices on unconventional substrates such as plastics and paper using printing and transfer techniques. His research has addressed high-performance printed transistors on biodegradable substrates for transient electronics, contact-transfer printing methods, and energy harvesting devices on textiles and plant surfaces. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2022) Marie Curie Fellowship IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award (2016) Microelectronic Engineering Young Investigator Award (2016, Elsevier)