Faculty

New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Peide "Peter" Ye

Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist with a deep understanding in various atomic layer deposition solutions. He is also interested in novel ferroelectric materials for ferroelectric memory and oxides for novel logic and BEOL applications.

Haiyan Wang

Basil S. Turner Professor, Elmore Family School Electrical and Computer Engineering and School of Materials Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Design and processing of functional nanocomposite thin films for microelectronics, optoelectronics, high-temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic applications, and radiation tolerant materials.

Pramey Upadhyaya

Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Theorist exploring magnetism, classical and quantum spintronics, next-generation information processing & bio-devices.

Issam Mudawar

Betty Ruth and Milton B. Hollander Family Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Sensible and evaporative heating of thin films, pool boiling, flow boiling, jet-impingement cooling, spray cooling, micro-channel heat sinks, heat transfer enhancement, heat transfer in rotating systems, critical heat flux, and capillary pumped flows.

Mike Manfra

Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor, School of Materials Engineering; Scientific Director, Microsoft Quantum Lab Purdue

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Quantum physicist developing novel qubit hardware in semiconductor and hybrid superconductor/semiconductor systems. Work includes semiconductor growth, mesoscopic device fabrication, and low temperature electron transport.

Mark Lundstrom

Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Special Advisor on Microelectronics to Executive Vice President of Purdue University for Strategic Initiatives

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Physics, modeling, and simulation of electronic and thermal transport in semiconductor devices.

Haitong Li

Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

New memory device technologies and circuit designs for energy-efficient computing, spanning experimental, design, and system integration aspects for creating nanotechnology-inspired hardware chips

David Janes

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Nanoscale electronic devices, molecular/semiconductor devices, microwave devices, and characterization.

Muhammad Hussain

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Design and development of advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics and integration of highly manufacturable, widely deployable and low cost futuristic electronic systems for logic computing, handheld/wearable smart gadgets, defense, healthcare, environmental monitoring, robotics, and automation.

Supriyo Datta

Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Known for pioneering the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) model widely used in semiconductor industry to model nanoscale electronic devices. Also known for creative proposals that inspired new fields of research like negative capacitance devices, spintronics and probabilistic bits.

Zhihong Chen

Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk, Interim Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center and Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on novel materials for logic and interconnect applications. She is also an expert in developing concepts for back-end-of-line (BEOL) heterogeneously, monolithically integrated memory applications.

Bryan Boudouris

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, by Courtesy

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Atomic-Scale Engineering of Semiconductor Materials and Devices

Design and synthesis of organic and hybrid materials for optical, electronic, magnetic, and spintronic device applications with a focus on the materials chemistry, molecular-level physics, and device optimization.

Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva

Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on optical meta-materials and quantum materials.

Thomas Beechem

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist that characterizes various materials and devices employing time resolved, low-temperature photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, and near IR ellipsometry.

Shubhra Bansal

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Bansal research group works on dimensionally modified halide perovskite and chalcogenide compound semiconductors. The goal is to develop novel functional materials, advanced device packaging, interconnection technologies and physics-based degradation models for lifetime prediction.

Joerg Appenzeller

Barry M. and Patricia L. Epstein Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Scientific Director of Nanoelectronic

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

Experimentalist working on low-dimensional transport for logic and memory applications. He designs, fabricates, characterizes and analyzes novel devices and circuits from transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs).

Ashraf Alam

Jai N. Gupta Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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New Devices, Modeling, and Fabrication

He works on experiments and simulations of reliability aspects in novel logic and memory devices. He also investigates radiation damage of devices and circuits.

Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Xinghang Zhang

Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Synthesis of nanomaterials, Radiation Damage in nanostructured materials, Mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals, dynamics of metal bonding.

Justin Weibel

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Electronics cooling and packaging phase-change transport phenomena microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport.

Tiwei Wei

Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration with a focus on processing, materials, and architecture development, Chip-Package Interactions, Reliability, and Efficient thermal management technologies.

Ganesh Subbarayan

Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Electronics Packaging with a focus on thermomechanical behavior, reliability, and electrical-thermal-mechanical co-design. Co-director, SRC Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging (CHIRP).

Liang Pan

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Scalable nanomanufacturing: lithography and imaging optical and magnetic data storage nanoscale energy conversion, transfer and storage for alternative energy.

Amy Marconnet

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Transport phenomena in multi-scale, heterogeneous materials & systems fundamentals of nanoscale thermal transport electronics cooling and thermal management.

Carol Handwerker

Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor, School of Materials Engineering and School of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Alloy and process design for bonding and heterogeneous integration, stress relaxation in thin films kinetics of diffusion, and migration processes at interfaces circular economy pathways for electronics.

John Howarter

Associate Professor, School of Materials Engineering and School of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Reducing the operational energy footprint of polymer membranes through material design.

James Gibert

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Shock and vibration characterization of electronics packaging; Optimization of mechanical systems; Additive manufacturing; Smart material systems.

Chelsea Davis

Assistant Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Molecular visualization of interfacial mechanics, including adhesion, friction, and wetting novel measurements of polymer interfacial properties and mechanics.

Nikhilesh Chawla

Ransburg Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Four-Dimensional (4D) materials science with a particular emphasis on the deformation behavior of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales characteristic of advanced packaging.

John Blendell

Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Heterogeneous Integration and Advanced Packaging

Modeling and measurement of microstructure development using advanced characterization techniques to predict reliability.

Simulation and Modeling

Ganesh Subbarayan

Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

Multiphysics, Multiscale modeling of electronic devices and packages. Electrical-thermal-mechanical co-design of Heterogeneously Integrated systems. Reliability modeling and experimental characterization including fatigue, fracture and electromigration.

Tillmann Kubis

Katherine Ngai Pesic & Silvaco Research Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

Theorist exploring equilibrium and non-equilibrium phenomena in nanodevices and molecules. This covers electronic and phonon bandstructures as well as heat, charge and spin transport in nanodevices.

Marisol Koslowski

Assistant Head for Engagement and Partnerships, and Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

Finite Elements and Phase Field simulations of stress relaxation, kinetics, and diffusion in thin films. Integration of thermal, electrical, and mechanical fields to predict failure in electronics.

Gerhard Klimeck

Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices, and Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

Theorist working on modeling of nanoelectronic devices, genetic algorithm based optimization, and image processing.

Dan Jiao

Synopsys Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

CAD design expert exploring computational electromagnetics, modeling and simulation of micro- and nano-scale integrated circuits, high-speed VLSI circuit design and analysis, high-performance VLSI CAD, applied electromagnetics, signal and power integrity, fast and high-capacity numerical methods, scattering and antenna analysis, and bio-electromagnetics.

Edwin Garcia

Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Simulation and Modeling

Microstructural modeling of multifunctional materials, including solder-based interconnects microstructural evolution and phase transformations in confined geometries reliability and optimization of FeRAMs, portable power sources.

Xiulin Ruan

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions

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Simulation and Modeling

Development of simulation methods within the framework of first principles, molecular dynamics, Boltzmann transport equation, and Monte Carlo methods; Prediction of thermal conductivity, interfacial thermal resistance, and Joule heating in electronic materials and nanostructures; Machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design of semiconductor materials and systems.

Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Shreyas Sen

Elmore Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

VLSI and circuit design, sensing and communication circuits/systems, energy harvested sensor nodes for internet of things (IoT), analog/RF, wireless, and security.

Kaushik Roy

Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director of Center for Brain-Inspired Computing, a DARPA/SRC JUMP Center

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Neuromorphic computing, device-circuit-architecture co-design for AI workloads, computing-in-memory, robust and secure system design, and energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems.

Vijay Raghunathan

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Expert in embedded systems, Internet-of-things and energy-efficient and secure embedded computing.

Anand Raghunathan

Silicon Valley Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Kuhardware for AI and machine learning, compute near and in memory, and secure microelectronics.

Saeed Mohammadi

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Experimentalist exploring nanoscale electronic devices including devices based on carbon nanotubes and nanowires, nanoelectromechanical devices, RF devices, device characterization and modeling, RF and microwave circuits, low-power electronics, 3D integration, optoelectronics, Nanofluidic and vacuum electronic.

Byunghoo Jung

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

VLSI designer of circuits and systems for wireless sensing applications.

Mark Johnson

Senior Lecture, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

System on Chip Extension Technologies (SoCET, pronounced like socket) is a long running chip design team intended primarily for undergraduates to get experience in as many aspects of chip design, fabrication, and test as possible. The team is organized like a small chip design company with sub-teams for logic design, verification, chip-layout, analog design, printed circuit board design, test, software, and special research projects in collaboration with research groups in ECE. Most team members receive academic credit for work on SoCET, but some receive research or teaching assistant funding, and experienced members often continue on a volunteer basis.

Sumeet Gupta

Elmore Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Integrated Circuits and Systems Design

Theorist exploring device-circuit co-design in emerging nanotechnologies for Boolean and non-Boolean computing, spintronics, low power variation tolerant VLSI design, device-circuit modeling.

Sensors and Thermal Imaging

Ali Shakouri

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

Experimentalist exploring quantum electronics, mutual interaction of heat, light, and electricity in nano materials and devices, lock-in imaging and advanced image processing with applications to nanoscale thermal measurements and roll-to-roll process monitoring.

Rahim Rahimi

Assistant Professor, School of Materials Engineering

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

scalable manufacturing processes of flexible electronic devices that can empower technologies for health-care and environmental monitoring convergence of advancements in functional polymers and electrical engineering for developing innovative tools and technologies that can be utilized in solving various obstacles in healthcare, agriculture, and the environment.

Peter Bermel

Elmore Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Sensors and Thermal Imaging

nanophotonics, including photovoltaics, lighting, thermal physics, sources, detectors, and switches.

Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Fu Zhao

Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Environment friendly design and life cycle engineering for sustainable electronics, sustainable energy, manufacturing high-performance buildings.

Dongyan Xu

Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS and Assistant Professor, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Energy efficiency and cybersecurity for semiconductor device manufacturing and supply chain management, via monitoring, modeling, analytics and vulnerability discovery/mitigation.

John Sutherland

John Sutherland - Fehsenfeld Family Head, School of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Environmentally responsible design and manufacturing; sustainable systems; decision-making for sustainability; manufacturing; corporate social responsibility; sustainability education.

Tho V. Le

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology, School of Engineering Technology

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Semiconductor supply chains and its digital twins. Apply lean six sigma in semiconductor design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and packaging, etc.

Inez Hua

Professor, School of Civil Engineering and School of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Environmental sustainability, water pollution control, and the environmental fate of organic contaminants; water consumption in supply chains; sustainable electronics and environmental sustainability in engineering education.

Ananth Grama

Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science

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Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis

Energy efficiency and cybersecurity for semiconductor device manufacturing and supply chain management, via monitoring, modeling, analytics and vulnerability discovery/mitigation.

MEMS and Photonics

Dana Weinstein

Associate Dean of Graduate Education, CoE and Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist exploring new mechanical designs and efficient transducers for MEMS devices and systems. Focus on monolithic and heterogeneous integration with ICs, programmability, ad-hoc tuning, analog signal processing, sensors, and actuators using electromechanical devices.

Xianfan Xu

James J. and Carol L. Shuttleworth Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, by courtesy in Elmore Family School Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Investigation of fundamental thermal transport in thin film and two dimensional semiconductors, and development of innovative solutions for thermal transport control and thermal switching in semiconductor devices

Minghao Qi

Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist interested in Nanotechnology, especially 3D nanofabrication and low-cost nanolithography micro and nanophotonics, with emphasis on 3D photonic crystals and integrated Si photonic circuits thermophotovoltaics and solar cells.

Dimitri Peroulis

Michael and Katherine Birck Head and Reilly Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist focusing on reconfigurable analog/RF electronics for adaptive communications, signal intelligence, and harsh-environment sensors.

Mahdi Hosseini

Assistant Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist investigating quantum interaction of light with atoms and its role in quantum optical communication, computation and sensing. We work towards developing a hybrid and scalable platform for future quantum optical technologies.

Sunil Bhave

Associate Director of Operations, Birck Nanotechnology Center and Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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MEMS and Photonics

Experimentalist exploring inter-domain coupling in Opto-mechanical, Spin-Acoustic and Atom-MEMS devices to design and fabricate inertial sensors, clocks, frequency combs and computing and microwave sub-systems.

Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle Engagement

Justin Weibel

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

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