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Work Experience
- 2004 - current
Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
- 2000 - 2004
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT
Madras
- 1993 - 2000
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT
Madras
- 1991 - 1993
Entrepreneur working on semiconductor product development (on
leave from IIT)
- 1983 - 1993
Senior Scientific Officer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT
Madras
Foreign Visits
- May - Jun 2004
University of South Carolina, Columbia
- Apr - May 2003
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
- May - Jun 2002
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
- Jan - Apr 2001
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA (on
Sabbatical)
- Jan - Dec 2000
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (on Sabbatical)
Awards and Honours
- VLSI Society of
India Best Faculty Award for "contributions in the
area of teaching, popularizing and creating some of the best minds in
Microelectronics in the last 30 years in India" (2021).
- President’s
nominee in the IIT Council for contributions
in education, science or technology (2019–2022)
- President’s
nominee in faculty selection committee of Central
University of Tamil Nadu, IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
(2017–2021)
- Associate
Editor, IEEE Trans. Education (2013 onwards; first ever from India since the inception of this
journal in 1958)
- IBM Faculty Award
for Research and Teaching initiatives in nano-scale
MOSFETs (2007)
- Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for contributions to analytical modeling and
numerical simulation of novel and short channel devices and
development of new semiconductor processes (2006)
- First student in IIT Madras to be admitted into the PhD program and appointed
as a Senior Scientific Officer in the EE department directly after B.Tech, based on the B.Tech
academic record (1983).
Other highlights
- Our most frequently cited work on Field Plate GaN HEMT is cited
as an example simulation by SILVACO on its website https://silvaco.com/examples/tcad/section8/example2/.
- My
online NPTEL UG/PG video course on Solid
State Devices is widely viewed across the world and arguably the
most popular in India, from among videos on the same topic (Basis:
unsolicited viewer feedback)
- I designed and Initiated “Introduction to
Research” as a compulsory course for all research scholars
in IITM; conducted over 35 workshops on this topic in IITs, RRI, NITs,
IIITs and other institutions; was the lead faculty for the first
nationwide ISTE mega-workshop for 10,000 teachers conducted by CDEEP,
IIT Bombay on this topic (2012).
- I
designed and conducted solely or jointly over 80 invited
highly rated teacher training sessions on
various aspects of How teachers can make
a difference in 14 institutions including IITs, IISERs, NITs,
IIIT.
·
As Chairman 2007 JEE operations in the south zone, I
worked with the vice-chairman to cut-down the counselling duration from 12 hrs to 8 hrs / day by
processing candidates in the order of their registration numbers rather
than All India Rank (first in JEE history).
·
The entrepreneurial venture I undertook on lien (1991-1993) to develop the technology of
special purpose diodes was one of the factors which encouraged IIT Madras
to amend its leave rules by including a paid leave for entrepreneurial
efforts. Others have utilized this facility later.
Click here for Publications in Journals and books,
patents and video lectures
Significant
Committees
- Chairman,
AICTE’s All India Board of PG Education and Research in
Engineering and Technology (2020-2023)
- Member, Governing council of CeNS
(Center for Nano and Soft Matter
Sciences)
(2021–2024)
- Member, Executive committee of AICTE
(2021–2024)
- Member, AICTE’s All India Board of UG
Studies in Engg. and Technol. as
representative of the IITs in (2016–2019)
- Member,
UGC Audit Committee for Aligarh Muslim Univ. and Pondicherry Univ.
(2016)
- Member, BoD, CyberTech Systems and
Software Ltd., Thane having a market cap of Rs.92.18 crore
(2011 onwards)
- Member,
National Working Group on Nanotechnology formed by DIT, GoI (2005–2010)
- Member,
IIT Hyderabad Task Force (2009–2010)
MoUs for academic collaboration with
- Ohio
State University, USA
(2021)
- GE
India Technology Center Pvt.
Ltd. (2008)
Journals Reviewed
- IEEE Trans. Electron Devices
- IEEE Electron Device Lett.
- IEEE Journal of Electron Device Society
- IEEE Trans. Computer-aided Design
- IEEE Trans. Education
- J. Appl. Phys.
- Superlattices and Microstructures
- Solid-State Electronics
- IET Power Electronics
- Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics
- IETE Journal of Research
- IEEE J. Electron Device Society
- J. Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Renewable Energy
- Journal of Thermophysics
and Heat Transfer
- IETE
Technical Review
- Semiconductor
Science and Technology
- Applied
Surface Science
Conference Organization
- Advisory
Committee Member
2019 20th IWPSD, Kolkata
2017 19th IWPSD, IIT Delhi.
2016 4th IC Design & Manufacturing, IIIT, Kancheepuram.
2009 15th IWPSD, New Delhi
2006 4th ISSS
NC on Microsystem, Smart Materials, Structures, VNIT Nagpur
2006 MATEIT, New Delhi
2005 ICMAT, Singapore
- Organizing
committee member
2020 Vertical section
on Materials Processing Technology in Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (Vaibhav) summit,
2020 Smart Power and Renewable Energy
Devices, in 4th IEEE EDTM, Malaysia
2011 Modeling and Simulation session, in
16th IWPSD, IIT Kanpur
2009 Modeling and Simulation session, in
15th IWPSD, New Delhi
2005
Microelectronics and VLSI
session,
in IEEE Indicon, Chennai.
2003 Joint Secretary of IWPSD, Chennai
1998 PC Member of VLSI Design, Chennai
- Technical Sessions Chaired
2020 Semiconductor
materials and device processing, in Vaibhav
summit organized by GoI
2020 GaN Power
devices, in 4th IEEE EDTM, Malaysia
2011 Modeling &Simulation, in 16th IWPSD, IIT Kanpur
2009 Modeling & Simulation, in 15th IWPSD, New Delhi
2006 Nanoelectronics
and Nanodevices, Spring meeting of ISE, Singapore
2005 Microelectronics & VLSI, in IEEE Indicon,
Chennai
2003 HF Devices, in 12th IWPSD 2003, Chennai
New Courses / Labs Developed
- Introduction to Research :
India has a large technical
manpower. If the impact of this manpower on the research front becomes
commensurate with its size, India can be a major player on the global
scene. However, research calls for specialized skills in thinking,
experimentation, communication and management. A lecture-cum-activity
oriented course has been developed to activate these skills among
research scholars. The senate of IITM has approved this as a mandatory
course for all research scholars in the institute; some other
institutes have also initiated this course.
- Special Semiconductor Devices :
This is a graduate level
elective course covering high field transport phenomena, and
technology, modeling and applications of schottky
diodes, transit time diodes, HBTs, HEMTs, CCDs and thermoelectric
devices.
- Semiconductor Device Modeling: This is a compulsory course for graduate students
in the Microelectronics stream. It covers basics of semiconductors and
operation and modeling of p-n junction, BJT and MOSFET. The course was
developed along with another faculty member.
- Microelectromechanical Systems: This
is a graduate level elective course covering materials, micromachining
processes; sensing and actuation mechanisms, signal conditioning;
mechanics of cantilevers and diaphragms, scaling, and devices such as
pressure sensors, microaccelerometers,
microfluidics etc. The course was developed along with other faculty
members of the microelectronics group.
- Integrated Electronics Laboratory: This laboratory has a floor area of 90 ft x 45 ft,
and is capable of accommodating 120 students at a time. Each workbench
of this laboratory has the equipment required to do both hardware and
software experiments. All undergraduate and some postgraduate
laboratories in the curriculum are conducted here. Other faculty
members have also participated in the development of this laboratory.
- English
Communication: This
is a course offered by the humanities department on a selective basis
to postgraduate students needing improvement in language skills. I
proposed this course along with the "Introduction to
Research" course as a package for raising the quality of research
scholars, and the institute senate accepted my proposal.
Administration
- Head, Teaching Learning Center,
IIT Madras (Oct. 2019 onwards)
- Chairman, JEE 2007 and Vice-chairman, JEE 2006
operations in the south zone
- Coordinator, Educational Technology Cell, IIT Madras
(March 2003-October 2004)
- Head,
Integrated Electronics Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department
(July 2002 - April 2003)
Institute and
Departmental Service
- Member, Board of Academic
Research (2014-2016)
- Chairman, New Faculty Evaluation Committee, EE Department
(2007-2010)
- Coordinator,
NPTEL activities of EE department (2007-2012)
- Coordinator,
MS/PhD selection, Devices group for many semesters (2005-2014)
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Work Experience
Foreign Visits
Awards and Honours
Journals Reviewed
Conferences Chaired / Organized
New Courses / Labs developed
Administrative activities
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