Madhavan Swaminathan

Madhavan Swaminathan

Madhavan Swaminathan

Professor Emeritus


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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Flexible Electronics
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    Additional Research:
    Numerical methods in electromagneticsMixed signal designSignal, power, and thermal integrityPower deliveryIC-Package Co-design

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    Shyh-Chiang Shen

    Shyh-Chiang Shen

    Shyh-Chiang Shen

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Shyh-Chiang Shen received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001. He was a key contributor of high-cycle low-voltage radio-frequency (RF) microelectromechanical system (MEMS) switches and GaAs metal-semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs) millimeter-wave integrated circuits (MMICs) during his tenure at UIUC. At Xindium Technologies (2000-2004), he developed a proprietary commercial-grade InP single-heterojunction bipolar transistor (SHBT) technology that led to the first demonstration of monolithically integrated 40Gb/s PIN+TIA differential-output optical receivers.

    Shen joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted a Full Professor in 2018. His research has yielded 8 awarded U.S. patents, 5 book chapters, 170+ publications in refereed journals and conferences, and many invited seminar talks to date. He is also an editor of a book entitled Nitride Semiconductor LEDs (2nd Ed., October 2017.) His current research is focused on wide bandgap semiconductor (WBG) microelectronics and optoelectronic devices with emphasis on physical device study, fabrication processing technique development, and device characterizations.

    shyh.shen@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.1884

    Office Location:
    BH 307

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  • Semiconductor Research Lab (SRL) at Georgia Tech
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Electronic Materials
    • Electronics
    • High Performance Computing
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Optics & Photonics
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    High sensitivity, III-nitride-based UV photodetectorsAdvanced III-nitride coherent light emittersIII-nitride transistor technologies (unipolar and bipolar transistors)WBG high power electronicsCompound-semiconductor Integrated circuit technologiesSustainable, “green” technologies

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    Stephen E. Ralph

    Stephen E. Ralph

    Stephen Ralph

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Director, Georgia Electronic Design Center
    Glen Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Stephen E. Ralph is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received the BEE degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1988 for his work on highly nonequilibrium carrier transport in semiconductor devices. He is currently the director of the Georgia Electronic Design Center, a cross-disciplinary electronics and photonics research center focused on the synergistic development of high-speed electronic components and signal processing to enable revolutionary system performance. He is also the founder and director of the new Terabit Optical Networking Consortium, an industry led communications and information technology consortium. Prior to Georgia Tech he held a postdoctoral position at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a visiting scientist with the Optical Sciences Laboratory at the IBM T. J. Watson research center. He has widely published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and holds more than 10 patents in the fields of optical communications, optical devices and signal processing. His current research focuses on high-speed optical communications systems including modulation formats, coherent receivers, microwave photonics, integrated photonics and signal processing. Ralph is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electronic Devices. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA).

    stephen.ralph@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.5268

    Office Location:
    TSRB 505

    Georgia Electronic Design Center

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Mobile & Wireless Communications
    • Network and Security
    • Optics & Photonics
    Additional Research:
    Integrated photonicsMachine learning and signal processingPhotonics in aerospace applicationsUltra high capacity optical communication systemsSimulation and modeling of communication systems

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    Azad Naeemi

    Azad Naeemi

    Azad Naeemi

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Azad Naeemi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran in 1994, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

    Prior to his graduate studies (from 1994 to 1999), he was a design engineer with Partban and Afratab Companies, both located in Tehran, Iran. He worked as a research engineer in the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech from 2004 to 2008 and joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech in fall 2008.

    His research crosses the boundaries of materials, devices, circuits, and systems investigating integrated circuits based on conventional and emerging nanoelectronic and spintronic devices and interconnects. He is the recipient of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Paul Rappaport Award for the best paper that appeared in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2007. He is also the first recipient of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society James D. Meindl Innovators Award (2022). He has received an NSF CAREER Award, an SRC Inventor Recognition Award, and several best paper awards at international conferences.

    azad@gatech.edu

    404.894.4829

    Office Location:
    Pettit/MiRC 216

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  • Nanoelectronics Research Lab
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computer Engineering
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Nanomaterials
    • Quantum Computing
    • Quantum Computing and Systems
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    Emerging nanoelectronic devices and circuitsSpintronic devices and interconnectsCarbon nanotube and graphene devices and interconnectsCircuit and system implications of emerging devicesDesign and optimization for nanoscale technologies

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    Saibal Mukhopadhyay

    Saibal Mukhopadhyay

    Saibal Mukhopadhyay

    Joseph M. Pettit Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Saibal Mukhopadhyay received the bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in August 2006. He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in September 2007. Mukhopadhyay worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. as research staff member from August 2006 to September 2007 and as an intern in summers of 2003, 2004, and 2005. At IBM, his research primarily focused on technology-circuit co-design methodologies for low-power and variation tolerant static random access memory (SRAM) in sub-65nm silicon technologies. Mukhopadhyay has (co)-authored over 90 papers in reputed conferences and journals and filed seven United States patents

    saibal.mukhopadhyay@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.2688

    Office Location:
    KL 2356

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  • Gigascale Reliable Energy-Efficient Nanosystem (GREEN) Lab
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Communications
    • Computer Engineering
    • High Performance Computing
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Mobile & Wireless Communications
    • Optics & Photonics
    Additional Research:
    Low-power, variation tolerant, and reliable VLSI systemsDevice/circuit level modeling/estimation of power, yield, and reliabilityTechnology-circuit co-design methodologiesSelf-adaptive systems with on-chip sensing and repair techniqueMemory design for VLSI applicationsUltra-low power and fault-tolerant nanoelectronics: technology, circuit, and computing platforms

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    Sung Kyu Lim

    Sung Kyu Lim

    Sung Kyu Lim

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Sung Kyu Lim was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea, and moved to Los Angeles with his family at the age of 19. He received B.S. (1994), M.S. (1997), and Ph.D. (2000) degrees all from the Computer Science Department of University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). During 2000-2001, he was a post-doctoral scholar at UCLA, and a senior engineer at Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. In August 2001, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology an assistant professor. He is currently the director of the GTCAD (Georgia Tech Computer Aided Design) Laboratory at the School. He recently released a CD with his rock band in Los Angeles and spends his leisure time writing/recording music

    limsk@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.0373

    Office Location:
    Klaus 2360

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  • Georgia Tech Computer-Aided Design Laboratory
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computer Engineering
    • Electronics
    • High Performance Computing
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Mobile & Wireless Communications
    • Quantum Computing and Systems
    Additional Research:
    Physical design automation for VLSI circuits3D circuit/packaging layout automationQuantum circuit layout automationMicro-architecture design space explorationLayout automation for reconfigurable circuitsGraph theory and combinatorial optimization

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    Asif Khan

    Asif Khan

    Asif Khan

    Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering
    IMat Initiative Lead | C.H.I.P.S. Initiative - Electronic and Ferroic Materials

    Asif Khan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Khan’s research focuses on microelectronic devices, specifically on ferroelectric devices that address the challenges faced by the semiconductor industry due to the end of transistor miniaturization. His research group at Georgia Tech focuses on all aspects of ferroelectricity ranging from materials physics, growth, and electron microscopy to micro-/nano-fabrication of electronic devices, all the way to ferroelectric circuits and systems for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-centric applications.

    asif.khan@ece.gatech.edu

    Office Location:
    Pettit 212

    Electrons Lab

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    Additional Research:
    VLSI Systems and Digital Design; Microelectronics/Microsystems

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    J. Stevenson Kenney

    J. Stevenson Kenney

    J. Stevenson Kenney

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    J. Stevenson Kenney was born in St. Louis, MO in 1962. He received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Kenney has over 14 years of industrial experience in wireless communications. He has held engineering and management positions at Electromagnetic Sciences, Scientific Atlanta, Pacific Monolithics, and Spectrian. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. In January 2000, Kenney returned to Georgia Tech as Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Kenney has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers in the areas of microwave electronics, acoustics, and signal processing.

    jskenney@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.5170

    Office Location:
    TSRB 545

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Mobile & Wireless Communications
    • Optics & Photonics
    Additional Research:
    RF and Microwave Power Amplifier DesignBehavioral Simulation and PA LinearizationAdvanced RFIC DesignPhase Shifters and Beam Forming Networks for Smart Antennas

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    Benjamin Kein

    Benjamin Kein

    Benjamin Kein

    Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kennesaw State University

    Benjamin Klein received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994 and 1995, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign in 2000. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the theory and modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), which are a class of semiconductor laser used for telecommunications applications.

    From 2000-2003, Klein worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, working on the modeling and design of semiconductor quantum-dot based devices, including single photon emitters and single electron transistors. From 2003-2020 he was a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, first on the Savannah campus, and later in Atlanta. At the time of his departure from Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Professor and the Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

    bklein@gatech.edu

    404.385.4826

    Office Location:
    TSRB 438

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Electronics
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Nanomaterials
    • Optics & Photonics
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    Nanowire semiconductor devicesQuantum nanostructuresSemiconductor radiation detectorsPhotonic structures

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    Jennifer Hasler

    Jennifer Hasler

    Jennifer Hasler

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Jennifer Hasler received her B.S.E. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in August 1991. She received her Ph.D. in computation and neural systems from California Institute of Technology in February 1997. Hasler is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Atlanta is the coldest climate in which Hasler has lived. Hasler founded the Integrated Computational Electronics (ICE) laboratory at Georgia Tech, a laboratory affiliated with the Laboratories for Neural Engineering. Hasler is a member of Tau Beta P, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE.

    jennifer.hasler@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.2984

    Office Location:
    TSRB 405

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  • Integrated Computational Electronics Laboratory
  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Computer Engineering
    • Electronics
    • Medical Device Design, Development and Delivery
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    Analog-Digital Signal Processing / Mixed Signal integrated circuits (Systems on a chip)Scaling of deep submicron devicesFloating-gate devices, circuits, and systemsThe use of floating-gate MOS transistors to build "smart" interfaces for MEMS sensorsLow power electronicsAnalog VLSI models of on on-chip learning and Sensory processing in Neurobiology

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