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Karumbaiah Chappanda Nanaiah

Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator
karum.nanaiah@siu.edu
Engineering D115
Electrical Engineering Technology

Karumbaiah received his Bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and communication in 2007 from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in 2010 from Michigan Technological University, USA, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2013 from the University of Utah. He worked as an Assistant Professor from Oct 2013 to Aug 2014 at BITS-Pilani, Pilani campus, India, as a post-doctoral fellow from Sept 2014 to Sept 2018 at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, and as an Assistant Professor from Oct 2018 to Dec 2022 at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad campus, India. He was also a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in Jan 2018.

In Jan 2023, he joined the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale as an Assistant Professor.

His research interests are in electrochemical and gas sensors, gas plasma electronics, nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication, supercapacitors, photoelectrochemical water splitting, flexible electronics, MEMS/NEMS, and harsh environment computing circuits.

His teaching interests are in courses related to micro-electronic circuits, electronic devices, embedded systems, IoT, electronic instrumentation, and MEMS.

Awards and Honors:

  • IEEE Senior member

Selected Publications:

  1. S. Roy, S. Halder, S. Sharma, K. N. Chappanda, C. Chakraborty, M. Higuchi, “Coordination Nanosheet-Based Electrochromic Supercapacitor with High Energy Storage, Switching Durability, and Long Optical Memory Properties”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, (published, 2025)
  2. T. Leelasree, P. N. Sidhartha, M. Tathacharya, K. N. Chappanda, H. Aggarwal, “A low-cost, swift response, highly sensitive MOF-based dual sensing device enables detection of ultralow humidity levels and solvent polarity changes”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 12 (20), 7295-7305 (2024).
  3. K. Ramya, A. Tiwari, P. N. Sidhartha, S. Kanungo, K. N. Chappanda, “2D tungsten di-selenide nano-flakes for selective dopamine sensing”, IEEE Sens. J, 23 (21), 25680-25688 (2023)
  4. P. N. Sidhartha, S. Ch, B. Ghosh, K. N. Chappanda, “The Quality by Design approach for optimization of slayer exciter based Low Power Portable Atmospheric Plasma jet on bactericidal efficacy of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa”, Journal of Biophotonics, e202200333 (2023).
  5. S. Sharma, S. K. Ganeshan, P. K. Pattnaik, S. Kanungo, K. N. Chappanda, “Laser induced flexible graphene electrodes for electrochemical sensing of hydrazine“, Mater. Lett. 262, 127150 (2020).
  6. K. N. Chappanda, A. Chaix, S. G. Surya, B. A. Moosa, N. M. Khashab, K. N. Salama, Trianglamine hydrochloride crystals for a highly sensitive and selective humidity sensor, Sensor Actuat B-Chem., 294, 40-47 (2019).
  7. M. R. Tchalalak, P. M. Bhatt, K. N. Chappanda, K. Adil, Y. Belmabkhout, A. Cadiau, K. N. Salama, M. Eddaoudi, Fluorinated MOF platform to address the highly challenging selective removal and sensing of SO2 from flue gas and air, Nat. Commun., 10 (1), 1328, (2019).
  8. K. N. Chappanda, O. Shekhah, O. Yassine, S. P. Patole, M. Eddaoudi, K. N. Salama, “The quest for highly sensitive QCM humidity sensors: the coating of CNT/MOF composite sensing films as case study”, Sensor Actuat B-Chem., 257, 609–619, (2018)
  9. S. Ilyas, K. N. Chappanda, M. I. Younis, “Exploiting nonlinearities of micro-machined resonators for filtering applications”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 253508, (2017).
  10. S. N. R. Kazmi, M. A. A. Hafiz, K. N. Chappanda, S. Ilyas, J. A. H. Lerma, P. M. F. J Costa, M. I. Younis, “Tunable Nanoelectromechanical Resonator for Logic Computations”, Nanoscale, 9, 3449-3457 (2017).