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Awards Committee Chair
Ravi M. Todi

Ravi Todi received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. His graduate research work was focused on gate stack engineering, with emphasis on binary metal alloys as gate electrode and on high mobility Ge channel devices. In 2007 he started working as Advisory Engineer/Scientist at Semiconductor Research and Development Center at IBM Microelectronics Division focusing on high performance eDRAM integration on 45nm SOI logic platform. Starting in 2010 Ravi was appointed the lead Engineer for 22nm SOI eDRAM development. For his many contributions to the success of eDRAM program at IBM, Ravi was awarded IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2011. Ravi Joined Qualcomm in 2012, responsible for 20nm technology and product development as part of Qualcomm’s foundry engineering team. Ravi is also responsible for early learning on 16/14 nm FinFet technology nodes. Ravi had authored or co-authored over 50 publications, has several issues US patents and over 25 pending disclosures.
Lecuture Topic
- MOS Devices and Technology
Awards Committee Members
Fernando Guarin - Fellow

Lecture Topics:
Reliability and scaling of CMOS, SiGe Reliability
Hiroshi Iwai - Fellow

Lecture Topics:
- Future of Nano CMOS Technology
Erhard Kohn
Arokia Nathan - Fellow

Arokia Nathan is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1988. He joined LSI Logic USA, and subsequently, the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK, as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays. He has more than 600 publications, including six books, and more that 110 patents and four spin-off companies. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK and VISBAN Networks UK where he is a Director and Chief Technical Officer. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SID, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award.
Lecture Topics
- Flexible Electronics
- Oxide Semiconductor Electronics
- Ultralow Power Transistors and Sensor Interfaces
- Active Matrix OLED Displays
- TFT Compact Modeling and Parameter Extraction
- Nanoscale Large Area Electronics
Samar K. Saha - Life Fellow

Samar Saha has served as the 2016-2017 President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and currently serving as the Senior Past President and Chairs of the J.J. Ebers Award and Fellow Evaluations Committees. He is the Chief Research Scientist at Prospicient Devices, California, USA and an Adjunct faculty in the Electrical Engineering (EE) department, Santa Clara University, USA. In the past, he has worked in various technical and management positions for National Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Texas Instruments, Philips Semiconductors, Silicon Storage Technology, Synopsys, DSM Solutions, Silterra USA, and SuVolta. In academia, he has worked as a faculty member in the EE departments at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Auburn University; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Dr. Saha has authored over 100 research papers; two books, entitled, FinFET Devices for VLSI Circuits and Systems (2020) and Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond (2015); one book chapter on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD); and holds 12 US patents. His research interests include exploratory device and process architectures, compact modeling, renewable energy, and R & D management. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK.
Lecture Topics: (1) Advanced Field-Effect Transistor Device Technologies for Ultra-low Power VLSI Circuits and Systems at Nanometer Nodes; (2) Physics of Integrated Circuit Device Models for VLSI Circuit Design; (3) Thin Film Transistors for Ubiquitous Flexible Electronics; (4) Evolution of Semiconductor Devices Enabling Smart Environments and Integrated Ecosystems.
Osamu Tabata

Research Areas: (1) Micro sensors, actuators and integrated sensors, (2) Microfabrication especially etching and lithography (UV, X-ray), (3) Nanofabrication, (4) DNA nanotechnology, (5) Characterization of thin film mechanical properties
Professional Memberships: IEEE
Biography: Osamu Tabata had been with the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories from 1981. In 1996, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. In 2003, he moved to Kyoto University, Japan. October 2019, he moved to Kyoto University of Advanced Science and he is serving as a Founding Dean of New Faculty of Engineering from April 2020. From September to December 2000, he was a guest Professor of Institute of Microsystem Technology, University of Freiburg, Germany, from January to March 2001, he was a guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He had visiting Professorship for senior international scientists of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2010. He is an external senior research fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) from May 2010 and a guest Professor of Huazong University of Science and Technology from 2011. He served as a General Chair of MEMS2003 and NEMS2012, and general co-chair of NMDC2012. Currently he is an associate editor of several Journals in the field of Nano/Microsystems and N/MEMS. Also he is serving as a program committee member of many International Conferences. He is interested in the research to realize a unique and novel nanosystem by assembling the various functional components such as a microchip, a particle, a microcapsule, DNA origami, a cell, etc., with sizes ranging from the nanometer to micrometer scale on a few mm square MEMS substrate.
Paul K.L. Yu - Fellow

ECE Department, MS 0407
Lecture Topics:
- Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for RF/Wireless
- Semiconductor Wafer Bonding Technology for Device Integration
- Green Campus projects
Celebrated Member Award Committee Chair
Ravi M. Todi
Ravi Todi received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. His graduate research work was focused on gate stack engineering, with emphasis on binary metal alloys as gate electrode and on high mobility Ge channel devices. In 2007 he started working as Advisory Engineer/Scientist at Semiconductor Research and Development Center at IBM Microelectronics Division focusing on high performance eDRAM integration on 45nm SOI logic platform. Starting in 2010 Ravi was appointed the lead Engineer for 22nm SOI eDRAM development. For his many contributions to the success of eDRAM program at IBM, Ravi was awarded IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2011. Ravi Joined Qualcomm in 2012, responsible for 20nm technology and product development as part of Qualcomm’s foundry engineering team. Ravi is also responsible for early learning on 16/14 nm FinFet technology nodes. Ravi had authored or co-authored over 50 publications, has several issues US patents and over 25 pending disclosures.
Lecuture Topic
- MOS Devices and Technology
Celebrated Member Award Committee Members
Fernando Guarin - Fellow
Lecture Topics:
Reliability and scaling of CMOS, SiGe Reliability
Samar K. Saha - Life Fellow
Samar Saha has served as the 2016-2017 President of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and currently serving as the Senior Past President and Chairs of the J.J. Ebers Award and Fellow Evaluations Committees. He is the Chief Research Scientist at Prospicient Devices, California, USA and an Adjunct faculty in the Electrical Engineering (EE) department, Santa Clara University, USA. In the past, he has worked in various technical and management positions for National Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Texas Instruments, Philips Semiconductors, Silicon Storage Technology, Synopsys, DSM Solutions, Silterra USA, and SuVolta. In academia, he has worked as a faculty member in the EE departments at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Auburn University; the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Dr. Saha has authored over 100 research papers; two books, entitled, FinFET Devices for VLSI Circuits and Systems (2020) and Compact Models for Integrated Circuit Design: Conventional Transistors and Beyond (2015); one book chapter on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD); and holds 12 US patents. His research interests include exploratory device and process architectures, compact modeling, renewable energy, and R & D management. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK.
Lecture Topics: (1) Advanced Field-Effect Transistor Device Technologies for Ultra-low Power VLSI Circuits and Systems at Nanometer Nodes; (2) Physics of Integrated Circuit Device Models for VLSI Circuit Design; (3) Thin Film Transistors for Ubiquitous Flexible Electronics; (4) Evolution of Semiconductor Devices Enabling Smart Environments and Integrated Ecosystems.
Bin Zhao - Fellow
Lecture Topics:
- Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF IC and Enabling Technologies
- High Performance VLSI Interconnect
Distinguished Service Award Committee
Early Career Award Committee Chair
Bin Zhao - Fellow
Lecture Topics:
- Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF IC and Enabling Technologies
- High Performance VLSI Interconnect
Early Career Award Committee Members
Navakanta Bhat
Brief bio: Navakanta Bhat received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 1996. Then he worked at Motorola’s Advanced Products R&D Lab in Austin, TX until 1999. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His current research is on Nanoelectronics and Sensors. He has more than 200 publications and 20 patents. He was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC) at IISc, benchmarked against the best university facilities in the world. He is the recipient of IBM Faculty award and Outstanding Research Investigator award (Govt. of India). He is a Fellow of INAE. He was the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, during 2013-2016. He is the member of the National Innovation Council in Nanoelectronics. He is the founder and promoter of a startup called “PathShodh Healthcare”, which builds point-of-care diagnostics for diabetes and its complications.
Lecturer Topics:
- Nanotransistors with 2D materials : Opportunities and Challenges
- Electrochemical Biosensors for managing Diabetes and its Complications
- Single Chip Metal Oxide Gas Sensor Array for Environment Monitoring
- Nanostructured High Performance Gas sensors
Roger Booth
John Dallesasse
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Dallesasse is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he’s been for over 10 years. He also has over 20 years of industry experience in technology development and executive management, having led technically diverse and geographically distributed engineering teams. Prior to joining UIUC he was the Chief Technology Officer, Vice President, and co-founder of Skorpios Technologies where he was responsible for developing innovative methods for heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductors with silicon. His technical contributions include, with Nick Holonyak, Jr., the discovery of III‑V Oxidation, which has become an enabling process technology for the fabrication of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) for optical networking, 3D imaging, and LIDAR applications. John has over 100 publications and conference presentations, and 50 issued patents. He serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, the Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, and as the Vice President of Technical Committees for IEEE-EDS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Optica.
Fernando Guarin - Fellow
Lecture Topics:
Reliability and scaling of CMOS, SiGe Reliability
Kazunari Ishimaru
Murty Polavarapu
Mail Stop MVA01-016
Merlyne de Souza
Chair in Microelectronics, EEE Department
I graduated with a BSc in Physics and Mathematics (1985) from the University of Mumbai, a BE. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (1988) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1994). I joined as a Junior Research fellow in ‘95, was promoted to a Senior Research fellow in ‘98 and was appointed Professor in Electronics and Materials at the Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University in 2003. I joined the EEE department at Sheffield as Professor of Microelectronics in 2007. I work in multi-disciplinary research focused on the physics of devices, materials and their microelectronic applications in computing, communications and energy conversion.
Education Award Committee Chair
Hiroshi Iwai - Fellow
Lecture Topics:
- Future of Nano CMOS Technology
Education Award Committee Members
John D. Cressler
Ali Khakifirooz
Tsu-Jae King Liu
EECS
Tsu-Jae King Liu earned her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and was Member of Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1992 to 1996. In 1996 she joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering. Dr. Liu's awards include the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for development of the FinFET; IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2010) for contributions to nanoscale MOS transistors, memory devices, and MEMs devices; Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012); Semiconductor Industry Association Outstanding Research Award (2014); Semiconductor Research Corporation Aristotle Award (2016); and IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award (2021). She has authored or co-authored over 550 publications, holds over 95 U.S. patents, and is a Fellow of the IEEE and an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Her research activities are presently in advanced materials, process technology and devices for energy-efficient electronics.
Tomás Palacios - Compound Semiconductor Devices; Emerging Technologies and Devices; Solid-State Power and High Voltage Devices
Tomás Palacios is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received his PhD from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 2006, and his undergraduate degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). His current research focuses on demonstrating new electronic devices and applications for novel semiconductor materials such as graphene and gallium nitride. His work has been recognized with multiple awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the IEEE George Smith Award, and the NSF, ONR, and DARPA Young Faculty Awards, among many others. Prof. Palacios has authored more than 300 contributions in international journals and conferences, 10 of which have received a best-paper award, as well as 5 book chapters and more than 30 patents. Prof. Palacios is the founder and director of the MIT MTL Center for Graphene Devices and 2D Systems, as well as the Chief Advisor and co-founder of Cambridge Electronics, Inc.
Ramgopal Rao - Senior Member
Lecture Topics: Nanotechnology, MEMS, NEMS, Sensors
Merlyne de Souza
Chair in Microelectronics, EEE Department
I graduated with a BSc in Physics and Mathematics (1985) from the University of Mumbai, a BE. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (1988) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1994). I joined as a Junior Research fellow in ‘95, was promoted to a Senior Research fellow in ‘98 and was appointed Professor in Electronics and Materials at the Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University in 2003. I joined the EEE department at Sheffield as Professor of Microelectronics in 2007. I work in multi-disciplinary research focused on the physics of devices, materials and their microelectronic applications in computing, communications and energy conversion.
George Smith Award Committee Chair
Arokia Nathan - Fellow
Arokia Nathan is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1988. He joined LSI Logic USA, and subsequently, the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK, as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays. He has more than 600 publications, including six books, and more that 110 patents and four spin-off companies. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK and VISBAN Networks UK where he is a Director and Chief Technical Officer. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SID, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award.
Lecture Topics
- Flexible Electronics
- Oxide Semiconductor Electronics
- Ultralow Power Transistors and Sensor Interfaces
- Active Matrix OLED Displays
- TFT Compact Modeling and Parameter Extraction
- Nanoscale Large Area Electronics
J.J. Ebers Award Committee Chair
Paul K.L. Yu - Fellow
ECE Department, MS 0407
Lecture Topics:
- Recent Advances in Photonic Devices for RF/Wireless
- Semiconductor Wafer Bonding Technology for Device Integration
- Green Campus projects
J.J. Ebers Award Committee Members
Constantin Bulucea - Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
USA
Constantin Bulucea (S'69–M'70–SM'88–F'04- LF'13) was born in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania. In 1969, he got a one-year government scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1974, he received his Doctor degree in Electronics from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest with a thesis on hot-carrier injection in silicon. His original results were communicated at IEDM and published in the old (W. Crawford Dunlap’s) Solid-State Electronics. In Romania, he created the Annual Conference on Semiconductors, now an international IEEE event. His best known contribution from that period is the explanation of Grove’s breakdown voltage collapse in silicon gate-controlled devices as a breakdown-location switching phenomenon, as proven by 2-D computer calculations and measurements. Among his “firsts” from the same time is the direct proof, by DC recordings (rather than by capacitive inferences) of nA-range hot-carrier currents through silicon dioxide.
In 1886, Dr. Bulucea defected to the US, where he first developed a device/process architecture for rugged trench power DMOS transistors, while working for Siliconix (1987-1989). His inventive design became a world standard in the following years. Later on, at National Semiconductor (NS), he was a member of the Fairchild Research Center, then joined the company’s process development group. There, he enjoyed the last years of Silicon Valley's "Happy Scaling" as the architect of several CMOS processes for high-performance analog and mixed-signal applications (2000-2010). In 2011, he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff of Texas Instruments (TI), as a result of TI's acquisition of NSC. Throughout his tenure at NS and TI, he received three Patent of the Year awards, in recognition of the use of his inventions in high-volume manufacturing. He has published over 50 technical articles in major journals and has 70 issued US patents. In 2001, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy and in 2004 became an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to transistor engineering in the area of power electronics".
Dr. Bulucea has been a member of the Technical Committees of the Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM) and of the VLSI Technology Symposium. Between 2004 and 2012 he was the editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) for analog and mixed-signals technology. His IEEE responsibilities include membership in the IEEE/EDS Fellow Evaluation Committee (2018, 2019) and the IEEE/EDS Publications Committee (current).
Francesca Iacopi
School of Electrical and Data Engineering | Faculty of Engineering & IT
Prof. Francesca Iacopi (PhD in EE, KULeuven, 2004) has 20 years’ experience in Materials and Devices for Semiconductor Technologies across industry and academia, with over 120 peer-reviewed publications and 9 granted patents. Her research emphasis is the translation of basic scientific advances in nanomaterials and novel device concepts into a wide range semiconductor technologies, covering Cu/Low-k interconnects, novel TFET devices, advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration. Research Scientist at IMEC (Belgium) over 1999-2009, she then took up a one -year Guest Professorship at the University of Tokyo (Japan). In 2010-2011 she directed the Chip-Package Interaction strategy for GLOBALFOUNDRIES (Ca, USA), before becoming full -time Academic in Australia in 2012, where she invented a process to obtain graphene on silicon wafers, with applications in integrated sensing and energy storage. She was recipient of an MRS Gold Graduate Student Award (2003), an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012), and a Global Innovation Award at TechConnect in Washington DC (2014). She is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Senior Member IEEE and she is currently Head of Discipline, Communications and Electronics, of the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney.
Lecture Topics
- Graphene on cubic silicon carbide: a platform on silicon for More-Than-Moore integrated technologies
Santosh Kurinec
Lecturer Titles
-Ferroelectric Microelectronics
-Emerging Memory Devices
-Novel Materials Integration
-Photovoltaics - from cells to systems
-CMOS Beyond 2nm
-Energy Effi ciency in Computing
Roger Lake
Arokia Nathan - Fellow
Arokia Nathan is currently a Bye-Fellow and Tutor at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1988. He joined LSI Logic USA, and subsequently, the Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, before joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In 2006, he joined the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, UK, as the Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology. He moved to Cambridge University in 2011 as the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays. He has more than 600 publications, including six books, and more that 110 patents and four spin-off companies. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Touch Technologies, UK and VISBAN Networks UK where he is a Director and Chief Technical Officer. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SID, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and Sensor Council, a Chartered Engineer (UK), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK), and winner of the 2020 IEEE EDS JJ Ebers Award.
Lecture Topics
- Flexible Electronics
- Oxide Semiconductor Electronics
- Ultralow Power Transistors and Sensor Interfaces
- Active Matrix OLED Displays
- TFT Compact Modeling and Parameter Extraction
- Nanoscale Large Area Electronics
Lester Eastman Award Chair
Erhard Kohn
Lester Eastman Award Committee Member
Joachim N. Burghartz - Fellow
Joachim N. Burghartz is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, recipient of the 2014 EDS J.J. Ebers Award, and has been an ExCom member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. He received his MS degree from RWTH Aachen in 1982 and his PhD degree in 1987 from the University of Stuttgart, both in Germany. From 1987 thru 1998 he was with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he was engaged in early development of SiGe HBT technology and later in research on integrated passive components, particularly inductors, for application to monolithic RF circuits. From 1998 until 2005 he was with TU Delft in the Netherlands as a full professor and from 2001 as the Scientific Director of the Delft research institute DIMES. In fall 2005 he moved to Stuttgart, Germany, to head the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS). In addition, he is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart as a full professor. More recently, he also became CEO of the IMS Mikro-Nano Produkte GmbH. Dr. Burghartz has published about 350 reviewed articles and holds more than 30 patents. Distinguished Lecture Titles -Hybrid Systems in Foil -Ultra-thin chip technology -GaN technologies for power and RF
Lecture Topics:
-Ultra-Thin Chips – A New Paradigm in Silicon Technology
-Hybrid Systems-in-Foil - Combining the Merits of Thin Chips and of Large-Area Electronics
-GaN-on-Si Technology for Power, RF & Specials
-Marvels of Microelectronic Engineering
T. Paul Chow
Patrick Fay
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IN, USA
Patrick Fay received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1991, followed by the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, where he currently a professor as well as the director of the Notre Dame Nanofabrication Facility. His research interests include the design, fabrication, and characterization of III-V microwave and millimeter-wave electronic devices and circuits, power devices, and high-speed optoelectronic devices and optoelectronic integrated circuits. His research also includes the development and use of micromachining techniques for the fabrication of microwave and millimeter-wave components and packaging. Prof. Fay was awarded the Department of Electrical Engineering’s Outstanding Teacher award in 1998 and 2018, and Notre Dame's College of Engineering’s Outstanding Teacher award in 2015. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer, and serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Lecture Topics
- III-N Devices and Integration for Millimeter-Wave and Power Applications
- Vertical GaN Devices and Epitaxial Lift-Off Processing for High Performance Power Applications
- Advances in III-N Devices for Power and Internet of Things Applications
- III-N Nanowire FETs for Low-Power Applications
- Advanced Tunneling-Based Devices for mm-Wave Sensing and Imaging
Asif Khan
Huili Grace Xing - Compound Semiconductor Devices; Emerging Technologies and Devices
Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in ECE from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.S. in MSE from Lehigh University and Bachelor in Physics from Peking University. From 2004 to 2014, she was a faculty at the University of Notre Dame; she joined Cornell in 2015. Her research focuses on development of III-V nitrides, 2-D crystals, oxide semiconductors, recently multiferroics & magnetic materials: growth, electronic and optoelectronic devices, especially the interplay between material properties and device development for high performance devices. She has co-authored 400+ journal/conference papers, 9 book chapters and 20+ issued/pending patents. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the AFOSR YIP award, the ISCS Young Investigator Award, and a fellow of APS, AAAS and IEEE. She previously served as the IEEE EDL editor in 2015-2018.
Region 9 Outstanding Student Paper Award Committee Chair
Navakanta Bhat
Brief bio: Navakanta Bhat received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 1996. Then he worked at Motorola’s Advanced Products R&D Lab in Austin, TX until 1999. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His current research is on Nanoelectronics and Sensors. He has more than 200 publications and 20 patents. He was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC) at IISc, benchmarked against the best university facilities in the world. He is the recipient of IBM Faculty award and Outstanding Research Investigator award (Govt. of India). He is a Fellow of INAE. He was the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, during 2013-2016. He is the member of the National Innovation Council in Nanoelectronics. He is the founder and promoter of a startup called “PathShodh Healthcare”, which builds point-of-care diagnostics for diabetes and its complications.
Lecturer Topics:
- Nanotransistors with 2D materials : Opportunities and Challenges
- Electrochemical Biosensors for managing Diabetes and its Complications
- Single Chip Metal Oxide Gas Sensor Array for Environment Monitoring
- Nanostructured High Performance Gas sensors
Region 9 Outstanding Student Paper Award Committee Members
Mario Aleman
Arturo Escobosa
Depto. de Ing. Electrica
Edmundo A. Gutierrez-D. - Solid State Device Phenomena; Emerging Technologies and Devices
for Astrophysics, Mexico
Dr. Edmundo A. Gutiérrez-D. Got his PhD in 1993 from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium with the thesis entitled “Electrical performance of submicron CMOS technologies from 300 K to 4.2 K”. From 1989 to 1993, while working for his PhD, served as a research assistant at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium. In 1996 was guest Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. In 1996 spent two months as an invited lecturer at the Sao Paulo University, Brazil. In 2000 acted as Design Manager of the Motorola Mexico Center for Semiconductor Technology. In 2002 was invited lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. In 2005 joined the Intel Mexico Research Center as technical Director. Currently he holds a Professor position at the National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), in Puebla, Mexico. Prof. Gutiérrez-D. is an IEEE senior member since 2008.
Professor Gutiérrez-D. has published over 100 scientific publications and conferences in the field of semiconductor device physics, has supervised 5 M.Sc. and 10 Ph.D. thesis, and is author of the book “Low Temperature Electronics, Physics, Devices, Circuits and Applications” published by Academic Press in 2000. Prof. Gutiérrez-D. is member of the Mexico National System of Researchers and technical reviewer for the Mexico National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT).
Marcelo Pavanello - Senior Member
Marcelo Antonio Pavanello (S´99-M´02-SM´05) received the Electrical Engineering degree from FEI University in 1993, receiving the award “Instituto de Engenharia” given for the best student among all the modalities of engineering programs offered at FEI. He received the M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in 1996 and 2000, respectively, in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics) from University of São Paulo, Brazil. From August to December 1998 he was with Laboratoire de Microélectronique from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, working in the fabrication and electrical characterization of novel channel-engineered Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) transistors. From 2000 to 2002 he was with the Center of Semiconductor Components and Nanotechnologies, State University of Campinas, Brazil, where he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the development of a CMOS n-well process. Since 2003 he joined FEI University where he is now Full Professor at Electrical Engineering Department. In 2008 he has been with UCL as a visiting professor. Dr. Pavanello is Senior member of The IEEE and Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is also Research Associate to the National Council for Scientific Development (CNPq), Brazil. Since 2007 he serves as IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Distinguished Lecturer and has been nominated to the Compact Modeling Technical Committee of EDS in 2018. He is author and co-author of more than 300 technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and author/editor of 6 books. Dr. Pavanello coordinates several research projects fomented by Brazilian agencies like FAPESP, CNPq and Capes. He also supervised several Ph. D. dissertations, M. Sc. thesis and undergraduate projects in Electrical Engineering. His current interests are the compact modeling, fabrication, electrical characterization and simulation of SOI CMOS transistors with multiple gate configurations and silicon nanowires; the wide temperature range of operation of semiconductor devices; the digital and analog operation of novel channel-engineered SOI devices and circuits.
Lecture Topics:
1- Performance of Silicon-On-Insulator Nanowire and Nanosheet MOSFETs In a Wide Temperature Range
2- Operation of SOI Planar and Nanowire MOSFETs Down to Cryogenic Temperatures
3- Performance and Compact Model Junctionless Nanowire Transistors
Murty Polavarapu
Mail Stop MVA01-016
Jacobus W. Swart - Fellow
Camilo Tellez
Merlyne de Souza
Chair in Microelectronics, EEE Department
I graduated with a BSc in Physics and Mathematics (1985) from the University of Mumbai, a BE. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (1988) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1994). I joined as a Junior Research fellow in ‘95, was promoted to a Senior Research fellow in ‘98 and was appointed Professor in Electronics and Materials at the Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University in 2003. I joined the EEE department at Sheffield as Professor of Microelectronics in 2007. I work in multi-disciplinary research focused on the physics of devices, materials and their microelectronic applications in computing, communications and energy conversion.
Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award Committee Chair
Osamu Tabata
Research Areas: (1) Micro sensors, actuators and integrated sensors, (2) Microfabrication especially etching and lithography (UV, X-ray), (3) Nanofabrication, (4) DNA nanotechnology, (5) Characterization of thin film mechanical properties
Professional Memberships: IEEE
Biography: Osamu Tabata had been with the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories from 1981. In 1996, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. In 2003, he moved to Kyoto University, Japan. October 2019, he moved to Kyoto University of Advanced Science and he is serving as a Founding Dean of New Faculty of Engineering from April 2020. From September to December 2000, he was a guest Professor of Institute of Microsystem Technology, University of Freiburg, Germany, from January to March 2001, he was a guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He had visiting Professorship for senior international scientists of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2010. He is an external senior research fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) from May 2010 and a guest Professor of Huazong University of Science and Technology from 2011. He served as a General Chair of MEMS2003 and NEMS2012, and general co-chair of NMDC2012. Currently he is an associate editor of several Journals in the field of Nano/Microsystems and N/MEMS. Also he is serving as a program committee member of many International Conferences. He is interested in the research to realize a unique and novel nanosystem by assembling the various functional components such as a microchip, a particle, a microcapsule, DNA origami, a cell, etc., with sizes ranging from the nanometer to micrometer scale on a few mm square MEMS substrate.
Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award Committee Members
Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim - Professor
Research Areas: MEMS
Professional Memberships: IEEE; ASME; APS; AAAS
Biography: CJ Kim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He received his B.S. from Seoul National University and M.S. from Iowa State University along with the Graduate Research Excellence Award. Since joining the faculty at UCLA in 1993, he has established a MEMS Ph.D. major field in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Directing the Micro and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory, his research is in MEMS and nanotechnology, including design and fabrication of micro/nano structures, actuators and systems, with a special interest in utilizing surface tension. A fellow of ASME, Professor Kim is the recipient of TRW Outstanding Young Teacher Award, NSF CAREER Award, ALA Achievement Award, and Samueli Outstanding Teaching Award. He has served on numerous committees, including IEEE MEMS Conference and Transducers, and chaired conferences, including IEEE MEMS 2014. He is currently serving as a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME Journal of MEMS and on the Editorial Advisory Board for IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has also been active in the commercial sector, as a board member, scientific advisor, consultant, and founder of start-ups.
Wen J. Li
ACAE Dept.
Rudra Pratap - Professor
(India)
Research Areas: Dynamic MEMS, e.g., inertial MEMS, Microphones, CMUTs, PMUTs, and resonators. Energy dissipation at micro and nano scales. Energy harvesting. Mechanobiology. Nonlinear dynamics
Professional Memberships: IEEE, ISSS
Biography: Dr Rudra Pratap is a Professor and the Chairperson of the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), and an associate faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He specializes in MEMS and NEMS design. His other research interests include nonlinear dynamics, mechano-biology, and computational mechanics. Professor Pratap holds a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, USA, a Masters degree from the University of Arizona, USA, and a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Prior to joining IISc in 1996, he taught at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, for two and a half years. He was also an 'Invited Professor' at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland during 2004-2005. He has been at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, since 1996. He is a member of the Vision Group on Nanotechnology of Karnataka State. He has served on the editorial board of various journals. He is also the Chairman of i2n Technolgies Pvt Ltd, a company that he co-founded in 2010 for making nanotech hardware products. Dr. Pratap is a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.
Antonio J. Ricco - Senior Editor
Research Areas: Integrated microsystems, fluidics, biomedical diagnostics, bio/chemical sensors
Professional Memberships: American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society, IEEE
Biography: Tony Ricco received BS and PhD degrees in Chemistry from UC Berkeley (1980) and MIT (1984), respectively. In Sandia National Laboratories' Microsensor R&D Department (1984 - 1998), he developed chemical microsensors and integrated microsystems. He was guest professor at the University of Heidelberg (winter 1996/97). From 1999 - 2003, he was ACLARA BioSciences' Director of Microtechnologies and Materials, developing consumable plastic microfluidic systems for genetic analysis, high-throughput pharmaceutical discovery, proteomics, and pathogen detection. He directed Stanford's National Center for Space Biological Technologies from 2004 - 2007; since 2007, he has served as NASA Ames Research Center's Chief Technologist for Small Spacecraft Payloads and Technologies while on leave from Stanford University. Beginning in 2003, he has participated in the founding, development, and projects of the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (Dublin City University) as Adjunct Professor. Dr. Ricco is co-author of over 350 presentations, 200 publications, and 15 patents. He is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, former president of its Sensor Division, and currently Vice President of the Transducer Research Foundation. He served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry and is an Associate Editor of Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical as well as the Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.
Pasqualina Sarro - Prof. Dr.
(Netherlands)
Research Areas:
- novel materials and structures for MEMS and NEMS to be applied in health, environmental applications, automotive and scientific instrumentation
- 3D micro and nano-structuring; 3D integration schemes, including 3D interconnects
Professional Membership: IEEE/EDS
Biography: Lina Sarro is Professor of Microsystems Technology at the Delft University of Technology. Since 2009 she is also Head of the Microelectronics Department. She received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in solid-states physics from the University of Naples, Italy, in 1980. From 1981 to 1983, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Photovoltaic Research Group of the Division of Engineering, Brown University, Rhode Island, U.S.A. In 1987, she received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Since then, she has been with the Delft Institute of Microsystems and Nanoelectronics (DIMES), where she has been performing and supervising research in the field of integrated silicon sensors and MEMS technology. She has (co)-authored more than 500 publications. She is a member of the technical program committee and steering committee for several international conferences (IEEE MEMS, IEEE Sensors, Eurosensors, Transducers); Technical Program (co) chair for the IEEE Sensors 2002-2004 Conference General co-chair of IEEE MEMS 2009. Prof. Sarro is a member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences) and an IEEE Fellow.
Other Website: http://ectm.et.tudelft.nl
Goran Stemme - Professor
Micro and Nanosystems
Research Areas: Micro and nano device and system technology including sensors, actuators, fabrication techniques, device integration, wafer-level packaging, microfluidics, micro-optics. Specific focus on biomedical applications.
Professional Memberships: IEEE EDS
Biography: Goran Stemme received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and the Ph. D. degree in solid state electronics in 1987, both from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1981, he joined the Department of Solid State Electronics, Chalmers University of Technology. There, in 1990, he became an associate professor (docent) heading the silicon sensor research group. In 1991, he was appointed professor at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where he is currently the head of the department of Micro and Nanosystems at the School of Electrical Engineering. He is a member of the International Steering Committee of the Conference series TRANSDUCERS. Between 1995 and 2001 he was a member of the International Steering Committee of the Conference series IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and he was General Co-Chair of that conference in 1998. Prof. Stemme is Senior Editor and member of the Steering Committee the IEEE/ASME "Journal of Microelectromechnical Systems". Prof. Stemme is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and he is an IEEE Fellow.
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