Faculty at School of Engineering

Sonal Singhal

Sonal Singhal

Professor

School of Engineering


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Dr. Sonal Singhal (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor and the Associate Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and served as a split-site research scholar at the Sustainable Research Division, University of Nottingham, UK. She has also served as a Visiting Researcher at the Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (GC, SJTU), under the Shanghai Sci-Tech Co-Research Program.

Dr. Singhal’s core research expertise lies in VLSI design and fabrication, resulting in over 45 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in these fields. Her current research focuses on the design of reliability-aware novel CMOS logic architectures, silicon lifetime management frameworks for in-memory computing architectures, and spiking neural networks utilizing HKMG and FinFET technologies. Furthermore, she is the recipient of an externally funded research grant under the Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.

Dr. Sonal focuses on the design of Reliability-Aware novel CMOS logic architectures In-memory computing architecture, spiking neural networks at HKMG and FinFET technologies.

  • 2011 Ph.D. IIT Roorkee
  • 2006 M. Tech. IIT Roorkee

2024-present, Professor and Associate Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

2019-2023, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

2012-19, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR

2011-12, Assistant Professor, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun

  1. 2026 Awarded “2025 Shanghai Partner Research Program Scholarship" at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China to serve as a visiting researcher.
  2. 2024 Awarded Senior Membership of IEEE
  3. 2018 Awarded best oral presentation and travel grant in iSES-2018 conference, Hyderabad, India
  4. 2017 Cadence All India Design Contest Runner Up Award, Cadence Design Systems
  5. 2014 -2017 Young Scientist Award by DST
  6. 2010 -11 Commonwealth Scholarship as a split-site scholar at Energy & Sustainable Research Division, University of Nottingham, UK.
  7. 2007-10 M.H.R.D. Scholarship for Ph.D. program by MHRD, New Delhi
  8. 2004-06 M.H.R.D. Scholarship for M. Tech. program by MHRD, New Delhi

Ongoing

  1. Title: Development of Silicon Lifetime Framework at advanced technology node

Student: Shivangi Bansal

Status: Ongoing

Role: Supervisor

  1. Title: Aging-Aware approach for the design of Novel In-Memory Computing Architecture

Student: Atul Ranjan Srivastava 

Status: Ongoing

Role: Supervisor

Completed

  1. Title: Design and Analysis of Reliability-Aware CMOS Circuits for a Neuromorphic System” by Student: Shaik Jani Babu 

Status: Awarded-2022

Role: Supervisor

  1. Title: Design and development of Film Bulk Acoustics Wave Resonator for MEMS applications Student: Jyotirmoy Dutta 

Status: Awarded-2018

Role: Co-supervisor

  1. Title: Network on Chip for DTMF Decoder and TDM Switching in Telecommunication Network with HDL Environment by Adesh Kumar

               Ph.D. Status:  Awarded-2015

Role: Co-supervisor

  1. Jani Babu Shaik, Fan Hu, Linyu Zhu, Sonal Singhal, and Xinfei Guo “Extending Silicon Lifetime: A Review of Design Techniques for Reliable Integrated Circuit, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, Accepted 2026 (Q1, IF:30.4, Cite Score: 51.6)
  2. J. B. Shik, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, A. R. Srivastava , S. M. Picardo “rel-SLIFMEM: Design and analysis of a reliability-aware neuromorphic system”   Integration, vol. 105, p. 102499, Nov. 2025 (Q3, IF: 2.6, Cite Score: 5.2)
  3. J. B. Shaik, X. Guo and S. Singhal, "Impact of Aging and Process Variability on SRAM-Based In-Memory Computing Architectures," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 2697-2708 (Q1, IF: 5.2, Cite Score: 8.4)
  4. J. B. Shaik, S. M. Picardo, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Reliability-aware design of Integrate-and-Fire silicon neurons”, Integration, vol. 94, p. 102101, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.vlsi.2023.102101 (Q1, IF: 1.9, Cite Score: 3.8)
  5. Megha Nawaria, Sanjay Kumar, Mohit Kumar Gautam, Narendra Singh, Dhakad, Rohit Singh, Sonal Singhal, Pawan Kumar, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma, and Shaibal Mukherjee, Memristor-inspired Digital Logic Circuits and Comparison with 90-/180-nm CMOS Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 301-307, January 2024. (Q2, IF: 3.2, Cite Score: 5.4)
  6. S. M. Picardo, S. Jani, N. Goel, S. Singhal, “Enabling efficient rate and temporal coding using reliability- aware design of a neuromorphic circuit” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol 50, Issue 12, pp.4234-4250, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3395 (Q1, IF: 2.038, Cite Score: 3.7)
  7. S. Jani, S. Singhal, S. M. Picardo, N. Goel, “Impact of various NBTI distributions on SRAM performance for FinFET technology”, Integration the VLSI Journal vol 83, Issue 4 pp. 60-66, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vlsi.2021.12.005 (Q2, IF: 1.9, Cite Score: 3.8)
  8. S. Jani,, V. S. Aaditiya, S. Singhal, N. Goel, “Reliability-aware design of Neuromorphic Temporal Encoder for Image Recognition” International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, vol 50, Issue 4, pp. 1130-1142, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1002/cta.3209 (Q1, IF: 2.038, Cite Score: 3.7)
  9. Rohit Singh, Amit Kumar Singh, and Sonal Singhal, “Experiments using Arduino: Determination of the Air Quality Index”, Physics Education, IoP Publisher, vol 57, Issue 2, pp.025013, 2022, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6552/ac3d22. (Q3, Cite Score: 1.5)
  10. S. M. Picardo, S. Jani, N. Goel, S. Singhal, “Integral Impact of PVT variation with NBTI degradation on SRAM dynamic and static performance metrics” International Journal of Electronics, vol 109, Issue 2, pp. 293-316, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2021.1908628 (Q3, IF: 1.3, Cite Score: 3.2)
  11. S. Jani, S. Singhal, N. Goel, “Analysis of SRAM metrics for data dependent BTI degradation and process variability” Integration the VLSI Journal, vol 72, pp.148-162, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vlsi.2020.01.006 (Q2, IF: 1.9, Cite Score: 3.8)
  12. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, R. Chandra and H. O. Gupta, “Effect of Annealing Temperature and CdCl2 treatment on the Photo conversion efficiency of CdTe/Zn0.1Cd0.9S thin film solar cells”, Bulletin of Materials Science, vol 42, Issue 2, pp.1-7, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-018-1658-3 (Q2, IF: 1.8, Cite Score: 3.8)
  13. J. Dutta, A. V. Singh, S. Singhal, and Madhur Deo Upadhayay, “A comparative study on the design and simulation of TFBAR and polyimide TFBAR based RF bandpass filters” Microsystem Technologies, vol 23, Issue 12, pp. 5789-5795, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-017-3374-0 (Q2, IF: 2.1, Cite Score: 4.9)
  14. Kumar, P. Kuchal and , S. Singhal, “Five Stage Telecommunication Switching Design and Synthesis” Wireless Personal Communication, vol 97, Issue 2, pp. 3043-3059, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4660-y (Q2, IF: 2.2, Cite Score: 4.5)
  15. J. Dutta, A. V. Singh, S. Singhal, and Madhur Deo Upadhyay, “Design and Simulation of a Zinc Oxide Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator Filter for 2.6 GHz Ban Applications”, IETE Journal of Research, vol.62, Issue-1, pp. 3–8, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.2015.1062734 (Q2, IF: 1.5, Cite Score: 3.1)
  16. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Optical, structural and magnetic properties of Zn0.9Cd0.1S:yCo nanoparticles,”, Journal of Appl Phys A, vol 102, issue 2, pp. 393-399, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3524516 (Q2, IF: 2.98, Cite Score: 5.8)
  17. K. Chawla, S. Singhal, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Study of the physical properties of PLD grown cobalt doped nanocrystalline Zn0.9Cd0.1S thin films”, Thin Solid Films, vol 520, pp. 1437-1441, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2011.09.013 (Q1, IF: 2.5, Cite Score: 4.4)
  18. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Optical properties of Zn1-CdxS nanoparticles in the quantum confinement regime”, Current Nanoscience, vol 6, issue 1, pp. 94-98, 2010, DOI: 10.2174/157341310790226289 (Q2, IF: 1.5, Cite Score: 3.2)
  19. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla,, S. Nagar, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Photoluminescence measurements in the phase transition region of Zn1-xCdxS films”, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, vol 12, issue 4, pp. 1415-1421, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-009-9687-x (Q2, IF: 2.5, Cite Score: 4.0)
  20. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Effect of Laser Flux Density on ZnCdS Thin Films”, Thin Solid Film, vol 518, pp. 1402-1406, 2009,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.09.115 (Q1, IF: 2.5, Cite Score: 4.4)
  21. A. K. Chawla, S. Singhal, H. O. Gupta and R. Chandra, “Influence of nitrogen doping on the sputter deposited WO3 Films”, Thin Solid Films, vol. 518, issue 5, pp. 1430-1433, 2009 .https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2009.09.060 (Q1, IF: 2.5, Cite Score: 4.4)
  22. S. Singhal, A. K. Saxena and S. Dasgupta, “Estimation of various scattering parameters and 2- DEG from electron mobility calculations in the three conduction bands Г, L and X of Galliu Arsenide”, Pramana (Ind Acd of Sci) Vol 69, issue 4, pp. 687-694, 2007 https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/pram/069/04/0687-0692b (Q2, IF: 2.21, Cite Score: 4.1)

  1. S. Vishnuvardha Rajeshwaran, Ojusva Singh, Siddharth Patel, Sonal Singhal, and Rohit Singh, Design and Implementation of Smart Power Controller for Sensor Node, 1st International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future (ICITSIF 2026), IIT Indore, India, May 29–30, 2026.
  2. Atul Srivastava, Shaik Jani Babu, Sonal Singhal, Atul Vir Singh, “Aging Analysis of Various SRAM Cells Under Diverse Workload Condition,” IEEE 5th International Conference on VLSI Systems, Architecture, Technology, and Applications (VLSI SATA), May 2025.
  3. K. Negi, J. B. Shaik, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Reliability Analysis of CMOS Based Synaptic Circuits,” 8th IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), Bangalore, India, March 4–8, 2024.
  4. S. R. Kumar and S. Singhal, “Implementation of Neuron Astrocyte Interaction Dynamics,” 2023 IEEE 8th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Lonavla, India, 2023, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT57861.2023.10126497.
  5. Nagabandi Chandana, Karlapati Sindhu, Taduvai Sai Saketh, Sonal Singhal, and Rohit Singh, Solar Powered IoT Enabled Garden Watering System, 4th International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIoT 2023), Chennai, India, April 26–28, 2023.
  6. J. B. Shaik, S. Singhal, S. M. Picardo, and N. Goel presented a research paper on “Impact of Reliability Issues and Process Variability in Neuromorphic Circuits” at the 10th IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022), held in Mumbai, India, July 1–3, 2022, organized by IEEE Mumbai Section, IIT Mumbai.
  7. S. M. Picardo, J. B. Shaik, S. Singhal, and N. Goel presented a research paper on “Device Reliability Affecting Coding Schemes in Neuromorphic Circuits” at the 10th IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022), held in Mumbai, India, July 1–3, 2022, organized by IEEE Mumbai Section, IIT Mumbai.
  8. Aadithya VS, Jani Babu Shaik, S. Singhal, S. M. Picardo, and N. Goel, “Design and Mathematical Modelling of Inter Spike Interval of Temporal Neuromorphic Encoder for Image Recognition,” IEEE 5th International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE 2020), IIT Delhi.
  9. P. K. Gill, S. B. Jani, S. Singhal, N. Goel, and Jani Babu Shaik et al., “Investigating the Impact of BTI and HCI on Log-Domain Based Mihalas-Niebur Neuron Circuit,” MoSICom 2020, BITS Dubai.
  10. P. K. Gill, S. B. Jani, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “FPGA Implementation of Random Feature Mapping in ELM Algorithm for Binary Classification,” MoSICom 2020, BITS Pilani Dubai.
  11. S. M. Picardo, S. B. Jani, S. Sahni, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Analyzing the Impact of NBTI and Process Variability on Dynamic SRAM Metrics Under Temperature Variations,” MoSICom 2020, BITS Pilani Dubai.
  12. S. B. Jani, S. P. Chaudhari, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Analyzing Impact of NBTI and Time-Zero Variability on Dynamic SRAM Metrics,” 2018 IEEE INDICON, Coimbatore, India, 2018.
  13. Sonal Singhal, Bhawna Rawat, and Hari Om Gupta, “Performance Evaluation of Uttarakhand Electric Utility Using Slack Based Measure and Two-Stage DEA Modelling,” 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment (ICEPE 2018), NIT Meghalaya, June 1–2, 2018.
  14. S. P. Chaudhari, S. B. Jani, S. Singhal, and N. Goel, “Correlation of Dynamic and Static Metrics of SRAM Cell under Time-Zero Variability and after NBTI Degradation,” IEEE iSES, Hyderabad, India, 2018.
  15. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, and R. Chandra, “Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Efficiency of Dry CdCl2-Treated CdTe/Zn0.1Cd0.9S Thin Film Solar Cells,” 5th International Conference on Nanotechnology (STEMCON-16), Aligarh Muslim University, March 12–15, 2016.
  16. Indhu Lal Kanth and Sonal Singhal, “Parametric Analysis of Memristive Switching Mechanism,” 39th IEEE National Systems Conference, December 2015, Shiv Nadar University.
  17. J. Dutta, A. V. Singh, S. Singhal, and M. D. Upadhayay, “MBVD Equivalent Model of a ZnO/Al Based Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator for Microwave Filter Applications,” Seventh ISSS International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems (ISSS 2014), IISc Bangalore, July 8–11, 2014.
  18. J. Dutta, A. V. Singh, S. Singhal, and M. D. Upadhayay, “Study on Design and Simulation of Mo/AlN Based Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator for RF Filter Applications,” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), San Diego, CA, USA, April 28–May 2, 2014.
  19. R. Singh and S. Singhal, “Design of Vth-Based Voltage Reference Generators at 45 nm Technology,” 9th International IEEE Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ABV-IIITM Gwalior, India, 2014.
  20. S. Singhal, R. Singh, and A. K. Singh, “Design of a Sub-0.4 V Reference Circuit in 0.18µm CMOS Technology,” 6th International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2013), Malé, Maldives, August 16–18, 2013.
  21. Kumar, P. Kuchhal, and S. Singhal, “Network on Chip for DTMF Decoder and TDM Switching in Telecommunication Network with HDL Environment,” IEEE Xplore, doi: 10.1109/IAdCC.2013.6514464, 2013.
  22. S. Singhal, A. K. Chawla, H. O. Gupta, and R. Chandra, “Effect of Laser Fluence on Optical Properties of ZnCdS Thin Films,” International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), San Diego, California, USA, April 27–May 1, 2009.
  23. K. Chawla, S. Singhal, H. O. Gupta, and R. Chandra, “Structural and Photoluminescence Properties of ZnCdS Films Deposited by Pulsed Laser Ablation,” International Workshop on Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, July 9–11, 2009.

  • Project Title: Silicon Lifetime Management Framework for In-Memory Computing Architecture
    Involvement: Principal Investigator
    Co-PI: Xinfei Guo, Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (GC, SJTU)
    Status: Ongoing
    Funding Agency: Shanghai Sci-tech Co-research Program (Project Grant No. 25HB2704100)
    Amount Sanctioned: INR 50 Lakhs
    Duration: December 2025 – December 2027
  • Project Title: Efficiency Enhancement of RF-Sputtered CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells by Improving the Junction Interface Properties
    Involvement: Principal Investigator (PI)
    Funding Agency: Fast Track Scheme, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi
    Amount Sanctioned: INR 6.7 Lakhs
    Duration: 3 Years
    Start Date: April 2014
    Completion Date: September 2017