About

Siddhartha Ghosh is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Northeastern University, having joined the faculty in January 2021. His research interests include piezoelectric MEMS, acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques, and heterogeneous material integration. Ghosh holds a BS degree from Cornell University (2007), an M.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania (2011), and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (2015), all in electrical engineering. Prior to his appointment at Northeastern, he was a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2015 to 2020. His work has led to over 20 journal and conference publications and the co-invention of two patents. Ghosh has received notable awards including the NSF CAREER Award in 2024 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2023, recognizing his contributions to the development of novel microsystems for RF and optical signal processing, quantum computing, and integrated photonics.

Research topics

• Chemistry
• Nanotechnology
• Biology
• Microbiology
• Biochemistry
• Materials science
• Medicine
• Surgery
• Intensive care medicine

Selected publications

• Synthesis of cellulose nanocrystals from rice straw and its nanocomposites with electrospun polyurethane nanofibers: Study of material properties and its drug delivery applications

  International Journal of Biological Macromolecules · 2026-04-21

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• Nanozyme-associated toxicity and regulation

  Elsevier eBooks · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Microbe Mediated Metal Recovery: A Sustainable E-waste Management Approach

  Environmental science and engineering · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Interaction, inhibition and disruption of lysozyme fibrillar aggregates by the plant alkaloid berberine

  Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy · 2025-02-27 · 2 citations

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• Arsenic Bioremediation: A New Paradigm in Microbial Arsenic Clean-up Strategies

  BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks · 2025-11-04

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  The biosphere is under siege from heavy metal pollution, a dire consequence of human actions. Heavy metals are non-biodegradable, which persist for a long time in the environment, and cause severe water, soil, and air pollution. Green technology, like bioremediation is one of the promising approaches towards hazardous waste. This can be done by reducing bioavailability, mobility, and toxicity by transformation strategies. In the history of heavy metal pollution, arsenic (As) was one of the mass poisoning priorities pollutants extensively studied. In Bangladesh, more than 10 million people suffer from a huge amount of arsenic poisoning, and to date, people there face arsenic pollution in their day-to-day lives. Arsenic is the top carcinogen reported in different studies. This is due to the strong chemical relevance of phosphate as an essential biological moiety in nature and irreversible biochemical interactions with vital proteins. Various strategies have been developed in the last few decades, like physical methods, chemical methods, and phytoremediation, to overcome arsenic poisoning through contaminated water or bioaccumulation of arsenic metalloids in the food chain. Moreover, microbes subjected to continuous arsenic exposure develop several mechanisms to tolerate high arsenic concentrations, such as adsorption, complexation, and biotransformation of arsenic into a less toxic form by enzymatic reduction or by using them as terminal electron acceptors or donors in microbial respiration. Arsenic bioremediation is getting more attention because of its efficiency and cost-effective parameters.

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• Removal of Microplastics from Industrial Wastewater Using Microalgae

  2025-04-08

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  In recent years, pollution due to microplastics in the aquatic ecosystem has become a major environmental issue globally. Microplastic particles are smaller than 5 mm in diameter and dispersed throughout the aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environment. Microplastic is generally found in shorelines, seabed sediments, beaches, and wastewater effluents. These contaminants are refractory and have a long residence time, high stability, and can adsorb other contaminants such as heavy metals, pathogens, and chemical additives widely used in different processes involved in the raw plastic production. On ingestion by the aquatic animals, the microplastics are transferred along the food chains, leading to a decrease in nutritional value, physical damage, and impairment of the reproductive ability in the living organisms. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) polyethylene (PE), and polypropylene (PP) are most predominant components of microplastics. Although there are several conventional methods for the removal of microplastic, often they have limitations due to their expensive and inefficient nature. Lower biodegradation rates and higher production of microplastics have attracted more attention for their safe disposal. Recently, the interaction between microplastics and microalgae got greater attention as the later can generate potential extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that form hetero-aggregates with microplastic particles. Hence, this chapter gives an elaborate account of the removal of microplastics from industrial wastewater using microalgae and the underlying mechanism for the same. However, thorough optimization of various reaction parameters, high throughput screening, strain improvement by genetic engineering and in-depth understanding of the mechanism of the microplastic biodegradation using integrated multidisciplinary approaches are crucial for introducing bioremediation of microplastics as a complementary and alternative strategy.

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• A Perspective of Process Parameters on Algal Biomass Generation

  Apple Academic Press eBooks · 2025-05-28

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  Algae are industrially important organisms that contain numerous bioactive compounds which can be utilized for commercial purposes. A wide range of algal metabolites such as proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, carotenoids, or vitamins are applicable as different health, food, and feed supplements for the formulation of cosmetics and biofuel. Moreover, algae also have applications in biofertilizer, pharmaceuticals, and aquaculture industries. The easy cultivability of microalgal strains along with their adaptation to a great variety of environmental stress makes them a feasible tool for large-scale biomass generation. Biomass production of industrially important algae such as Chlorella pyrenoidosa, Chroococcus turgidus, Dunaliella salina, Nannochloropsis gaditana, Scenedesmus obliquus, Sirogonium sticticum, Temnogyra reflexa, and Uronema elongatum can be modulated through the modification of various process parameters. Hence, this chapter provides an elaborate account of the significance of various parameters which can be regulated for increasing algal biomass production. Various abiotic factors 82such as temperature, pH, salinity, and light intensity can regulate biomass production in different algal strains. The concentration of various nutrient sources such as the levels of nitrates, phosphates, and different forms of carbon sources can also dictate the algal biomass production. Similarly, the lipid content in different algal strains can also be varied by tuning the different growth parameters that are also discussed in detail in this chapter. Further elucidation of the effect of process parameters on lipid production by consortia of algae would provide useful insights into the feasibility of algal biomass generation in industries.

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• Mechanisms and applications of microalgae-based synergistic wastewater treatment

  2025-08-29

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  Rapid industrial development in all sectors has posed a significant threat to the environment due to the discharge of untreated and/or insufficiently treated polluted effluent into natural water bodies. Industrial effluents are often contaminated with heavy metals, dyes, pharmaceutical compounds, nutrients, organic substances, and pathogens. Conventional practices for wastewater treatment include primary and secondary treatment approaches. However, more recently, microalgae that exhibit autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic growth have been employed for the remediation of such hazardous environmental pollutants. Microalgae can significantly reduce the biological oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD). In view of the background, this chapter gives an elaborate account of employing microalgae with bacteria and fungi as a powerful co-culture system associated bioremediation strategy. Further, the use of various nanoparticles for synergistic enhancement of the microalgal bioremediation capacity is also discussed. Several mechanisms, such as biosorption, bioaccumulation, and biodegradation, are involved in the microalgal-mediated bioremediation of the refractory pollutants. Thus, extensive research on optimization of various parameters can help to achieve great success in developing novel phycoremediation approaches for wastewater treatment.

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• Algal Biochar for Removal of Refractory Pollutants

  Environmental science and engineering · 2025-01-01

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• Advanced engineered nanostructures for aerospace technology: A review

  Results in Engineering · 2025-05-18 · 9 citations

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  • Nanoparticles have immense applications in the field of aerospace and defense. • Nanohybrids and functionalized nanocomposites can influence space exploration. • Nanostructures are associated with nano-satellites (CubeSat) like RAVAN, ALICE and LISA. • Metal and metal oxide nanomaterials are associated with enhanced propulsion, thermal insulation, power and energy. • Carbon based and hybrid nanoparticles are used in different in situ resource utilization (ISRU) and life support. Engineered structural nanocomposites with tunable properties is immensely useful in the area of next generation aerospace engineering. Therefore, this review gives an elaborate account on diverse applications of nanomaterials for the advanced aerospace technology. Graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) based materials synthesized employing pyrolysis are used in the linear actuator multilayer insulation support (LAMLIS), proton exchange membrane fuel cell, propulsion system of CubeSat ALICE, low power neutralizer for electrospray thrusters, radiometer’s light absorber for RAVAN, and fillers for development of structural part of the spacecraft. Metal oxide based composites such as, TiO 2 NPs, ZnONPs, SnO 2 NPs, MgONPs, ZnO 2 NPs, CrO 2 NPs, CuZnONPs, CoZnONPs, and NiZnONPs are widely used in energy storage devices, dye-sensitized cells, anode material for lithium-ion batteries, fuel droplet combustion of rocket propellant grade 2 fuel, and thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate (AP) based composite solid propellants (CSPs). Nanocomposites with MgH 2 -VTi-CNTs, RuNPs, Mg 2 NiH 4 NPs, SiO 2 NPs, ZrO 2, Ir, and AlNCs help in different in situ resource utilization (ISRU) and life support by providing thermal insulation for space suits and aircrafts that protects from radiation and temperature fluctuations. Thus, incorporation of nanocomposites with improved thermoelectric properties and mechanical strength into aerospace components is a rational approach to facilitate space exploration initiatives.

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Frequent coauthors

• Sirikanjana Thongmee

  90 shared

• Bishwarup Sarkar

  71 shared

• Thomas J. Webster

  Hebei University of Technology

  57 shared

• Balu A. Chopade

  Savitribai Phule Pune University

  55 shared

• Khalida Bloch

  36 shared

• Rohini Kitture

  Defence Institute of Advanced Technology

  36 shared

• Balu A. Chopade

  Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

  33 shared

• Rahul Nitnavare

  International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

  31 shared

Labs

• MAPS LaboratoryPI

Education

• Ph.D., Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

  University of Pune

  2016

• M.Sc.

  University of Pune

  2008

• B.Sc.

  University of Pune

  2006

Awards & honors

• 2024 NSF CAREER Award
• 2023 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young…
• ECE PhD Student Awarded National Defense Science and Enginee…
• DARPA $4 Million Grant for Infrared Sensors (2023)