Sudhir Shrestha

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About

Dr. Shrestha is a tenured Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Sonoma State University, a campus of the California State University system. He holds both a Ph.D. and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Previously, he held research and academic positions at Purdue University in Indianapolis and Miami University in Ohio. He also founded an internet service and hardware company and held technical roles in the private sector in Nepal. Areas of Expertise: VOC Sensing and Breath VOC Sensors, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Embedded Systems

Appointments:

• 2017 – Present: Sonoma State University
  • School Chair, 2024, School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS)
  • Department Chair, 2022  – 2024, Department of Engineering
  • Associate Professor, 2021 – Present
  • Assistant Professor, 2017 – 2021
• 2016 – 2017:  Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• 2009 – 2016: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue Univeristy in Indianapolis
  • Assistant Research Professor, 2011 – 2016
  • Postdoc, 2009 – 2011
• 2004 – 2005: Digital Link, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Founder, Network, Systems & Hardware
• 2003 – 2004: Vianet Communications, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Network, Systems & Hardware

Education

Education and Training:

• PhD in Engineering (Electrical and Micro/Nanoscale Systems), Louisiana Tech University, 2009
• BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kathmandu University, 2003

Degrees

Selected Publications & Presentations

• S. Naser, D. A. Roberts, and S. Shrestha, “At-Home Breath Data Collection for Signatures of Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Clinical Study,” Biosensors, vol. 15, no. 3, 2025 doi: 10.3390/bios15030149.
• K. Duran, R. J. Hernandez, and S. Shrestha, “Deep Reinforcement Learning for a Four Degree of Freedom Robot Arm Accelerated by Human Demonstration,” 2025 3rd International Conference on Disruptive Technologies (ICDT), Greater Noida, India, 2025, pp. 537-542, doi: 10.1109/ICDT63985.2025.10986448.
• O. Piazza and S. Shrestha, “Pre-contextualized Augmented Language Instructions for Autonomous Vision-and-Language Navigation,” 2025 3rd International Conference on Disruptive Technologies (ICDT), Greater Noida, India, 2025, pp. 386-390, doi: 10.1109/ICDT63985.2025.10986598.
• M. Boubin and S. Shrestha, “Microcontroller Implementation of Support Vector Machine for Detecting Blood Glucose Levels using Breath Volatile Organic Compounds,” Applied Science, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 1-9, May 2019.
• P. Vora and S. Shrestha, “Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy Using Embedded Computer Vision,” Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 20, pp. 1-10, Oct 2020.
• A. Siegel, A. Daneshkhah, D. Hardin, S. Shrestha, et al., “Analyzing Breath Samples of Hypoglycemic Events in Type 1 Diabetes Patients: Towards Developing an Alternative to Diabetes Alert Dogs,” Journal of Breath Research, Vol. 11, No. 2, Jun. 2017.
• A. Daneshkhah, S. Shrestha, et al., “Poly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Hexafluoropropylene) Composite Sensors for Volatile Organic Compounds Detection in Breath,” Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 221, pp. 635-643, 2015.
• S. Shrestha, C. Harold, M. Boubin, and L. Lawrence, “Smart Wristband with Integrated Chemical Sensors for Detecting Glucose Levels Using Breath Volatile Organic Compounds,” in Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technology XV, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Apr. 16-18, 2019, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 11020 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA 2019), 110200R.
• Y.-T. Chen and S. Shrestha, “Source Classification of Indoor Air Pollutants using Principal Component Analysis for Smart Home Monitoring Applications,” 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), Rochester, MI, May 3-5, 2018, pp. 0129-0133.
• Y.-T. Chen,  et al., “Electronic Nose for Ambient Detection and Monitoring,” Proc. of SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Conference, Anaheim, CA, Apr. 9-13, 2017.
• S. Shrestha, et al., “Breast Tumor Detection by Flexible Wearable Antenna System,” International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 499-516, 2012.
• S. Shrestha, M. D. Balachandran, M. Agarwal, V. V. Phoha, and K. Varahramyan, “A Chipless RFID Sensor System for Cyber Centric Monitoring Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1303-1309, 2009. [150+ citations (scholar.google.com)]
• M. D. Balachandran, S. Shrestha, et al., “SnO2 Capacitive Sensor Integrated with Microstrip Patch Antenna for Passive Wireless Detection of Ethylene Gas,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 464-466, 2008.
• Full Publicatioin List

Patents:

• A Device to Collect Breath Data from Type-2 Diabetes Patients in Real-Life Situations. US 12,278,013 B2 (Published: April 15, 2025)
• Volatile Organic Compound Sensors, and Methods of Making and Using the Same. US 10107827 B1 (Published: Oct 22, 2018)
• Low Power Wireless Sensor System with Ring Oscillator and Sensors for Use in Monitoring of Physiological Data. US 2015 0295562 A1 (Published: Oct 14, 2015)
• Wearable Microstrip Antennas for Skin Placement for Biomedical Applications. US 9044158 B2 (Published: Jun 1, 2015)
• Paper-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries. US 9548496 B2 (Published: Jan 16, 2017), US 9531010 B2 (Published: Oct 17, 2016), US 9472832 B2
• Layer-by-Layer Assembled Nanoparticles Based Thin Films for Solar Cells and Other Applications. US 9444003 B2 (Published: Sep 12, 2016), UWO 2012 015989 A3 (Published: May 9, 2012)
• Transmission Delay Based RFID Tag. US 8179231 B1 (Published: May 14, 2012), US 8736452 B1 (Published: May 26, 2014 Filed: Mar 12, 2008)