Recipient of the IEEE Electron Device Society Fellowship (one of three worldwide, only one in the Americas) in 2014; Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at Georgia Tech; College of Engineering Seed Funding Award and Phase-I Chancellor’s Proof-of-Concept Award at UIC; NSF CAREER Award for his project on Robust and Ultra-low-power Spatial Intelligence in 2021; College of Engineering Faculty Research Award in 2021.
Research Experience
Research Staff Member at IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center from 2008 to 2010, involved in compact modeling and characterization of advanced nanometer node transistors/processes; Research Intern at IBM T J Watson Research Center in Summer 2012; Research Intern at Intel’s Circuit Research Lab in Summer 2014; Joined UIC as a tenured track Assistant Professor in October 2015.
Education
Completed undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 2008; Pursued Ph.D. at Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on low power, energy-efficient neuromorphic computing with Tunneling field-effect-transistors, completed in 2015.
Background
Research Interests: Low-power, energy-efficient neuromorphic computing with emerging technologies. Professional Field: Electrical and Computer Engineering.