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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    John D. Cressler

    John D. Cressler

    John Cressler

    Schlumberger Chair in Electronics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Cressler grew up in Georgia, and received the B.S. degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984. From 1984 until 1992 he was on the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, working on high-speed Silicon and Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices and technology. While continuing his full-time research position at IBM, he went back to pursue his graduate studies at Columbia University in 1985, receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics in 1987 and 1990, respectively.

    In 1992 Cressler left IBM Research to pursue his dream of becoming a professor, and joined the faculty at Auburn University, where he served until 2002, when he left to join Georgia Tech. He is presently a Regents Professor and the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics at Georgia Tech.

    Cressler is interested in the understanding, development, and application of new types of silicon-based bandgap-engineered microelectronic devices and circuits for high-speed electronics in emerging 21st century communications systems. He and his team have published over 700 technical papers in this field, and he has written five non-fiction books (two for general audiences). He has recently become enamored with writing historical fiction. His novels are interfaith love stories set in medieval Muslim Spain, including: Emeralds of the AlhambraShadows in the Shining City, and Fortune’s Lament (with a fourth in the works). His hobbies include wine collecting, cooking, gardening, fly fishing, mushroom foraging, and hiking.

    cressler@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.5161

    Office Location:
    TSRB 521

    SiGe Circuits Lab

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Nanomaterials
    • Optics & Photonics
    • Semiconductors
    Additional Research:
    Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices and technologySi-based RF/microwave/mm-wave heterostructure devices and circuitsRadiation effects in electronicsCryogenic electronicsReliability physics and modelingTransistor-level numerical simulation and compact circuit modeling

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    Abhijit Chatterjee

    Abhijit Chatterjee

    Abhijit Chatterjee

    Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Abhijit Chatterjee is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and a Fellow of the IEEE. He received his Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Chatterjee received the NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993 and the NSF CAREER Award in 1995. He has received six Best Paper Awards and three Best Paper Award nominations. His work on self-healing chips was featured as one of General Electric 's key technical achievements in 1992 and was cited by the Wall Street Journal. In 1995, he was named a Collaborating Partner in NASA's New Millennium project. In 1996, he received the Outstanding Faculty for Research Award from the Georgia Tech Packaging Research Center, and in 2000, he received the Outstanding Faculty for Technology Transfer Award, also given by the Packaging Research Center. In 2007, his group received the Margarida Jacome Award for work on VIZOR: Virtually Zero Margin Adaptive RF from the Berkeley Gigascale Research Center (GSRC). Chatterjee has authored over 400 papers in refereed journals and meetings and has 20 patents. He is a co-founder of Ardext Technologies Inc., a mixed-signal test solutions company and served as chairman and chief scientist from 2000-2002. He is currently directing research in mixed-signal/RF design and test funded by NSF, SRC, MARCO-DARPA, and industry, and he served as chair of the VLSI Technical Interest Group at Georgia Tech from 2010-2012. He co-leads the Samsung Center of Excellence in High-Speed Test, established at Georgia Tech in 2011.

    abhijit.chatterjee@ece.gatech.edu

    404.894.1880

    Office Location:
    Klaus 1352

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  • Low-power, Adaptive, and Resilient Systems Laboratory
  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Computer Engineering
    • Micro and Nano Device Engineering
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    Additional Research:
    VLSI and mixed-signal testingFault tolerant computingLow power circuit designComputer algorithmsDigital automation

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    Matthieu Bloch

    Matthieu Bloch

    Matthieu Bloch

    Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Matthieu R. Bloch is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received the Engineering degree from Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 2003, the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. In 2008-2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. Since July 2009, Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and from 2009 to 2013 Bloch was based at Georgia Tech Lorraine. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, error-control coding, wireless communications, and cryptography. Bloch has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences; he was the chair of the Online Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2011 to 2014, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2016 to 2019, and he has been on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society since 2016 and currently serves as the 2nd Vice-President. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security since 2019. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society 2011 Joint Paper Award and the co-author of the textbook Physical-Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.

    matthieu.bloch@ece.gatech.edu

    404.385.4825

    Office Location:
    Cent 5164

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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Communications
    • Miniaturization & Integration
    • Mobile & Wireless Communications
    • Optics & Photonics
    Additional Research:
    Communications and information theoryError-control codingWireless communicationsPhysical-layer security

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