Education and Employment

  • Associate Professor, UVa, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug'10-present.
  • Assistant Professor, UVa, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug'05-Aug'10.
  • Principal Research Scientist, Purdue Univ., School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, June'02-Aug'05.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue Univ., School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aug'99-June'02.
  • Ph. D., Ohio State University, Department of Physics, Sept'94-Aug'99.
  • Integrated B.S. + M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Physics, Sept'89-May'94.

    Honors and Awards

  • Over 70 refereed publications (h-index of 21)
  • Over 80 invited and keynote talks at conferences, society meetings, workshops, summer schools and seminars
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  • IEEE senior member
  • IBM Faculty Award (2011)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2008-2013)
  • UVa Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) Award (2008)
  • UVa University Teaching Fellowship (UTF) Award (2008)
  • Marquis Who's Who in US Science and Engineering (2008)
  • Charles L Brown New Faculty Teaching Award (2007)
  • Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship (1998-1999)

    Currently funded Research Areas

  • Transport and scattering effects in molecular electronics
  • Single defect spectroscopy from room temperature current noise
  • Graphene electronics and electron 'optics'
  • Spin torque based memory and nano-magnetic logic
  • Nanoscale heat flow
  • Signal propagation in axonal systems

    Funding history

  • ARO, $421,116, 05/01/01-04/30/06 (DURINT: molecular electronics)
  • SRC, $237,047, 01/01/03-12/31/05 (End-of-roadmap and Beyond roadmap CMOS)
  • BSF US-Israel, $12,000 (Travel money), 10/01/05-09/30/09 (Molecular electronics)
  • DARPA-AFOSR, $70,000, 06/15/05-11/14/05 (Moletronics)
  • DARPA-AFOSR, $2,400,000, 03/11/06-09/11/07 (MoleApps)
  • SRC, $15,000 (gift grant), 05/01/06-30/09/06 (Fundamentals of interconnects)
  • NSF-NUE, $200,000, 12/01/05-11/30/07 (Nanotechnology through 'hands-on' experiments and simulations)
  • NSF-NIRT, $1,200,000, 06/01/07-05/31/11 (SurFETs: Surface modulated field-effect transistors)
  • NSF-CAREER, $400,000, 02/01/08-01/31/13 (Interactions between nano and micro)
  • UTF Fellowship, $7,000, 06/01/09-05/31/10 (Teaching Fellowship)
  • FEST, $50,000, 07/01/08-06/30/09 (Graphene nano-electronics)
  • NRI INDEX, $225,000, 09/01/08-04/30/11 (Non-equilibrium ratchets for low-power computing)
  • NRI I.5, $150,000, 01/01/11-12/31/12 (Graphene pn junctions and electron 'optics')
  • DARPA-GRANDIS, $14,000,000, 11/20/08-11/19/10 (Spin torque based RAM: Physics and material issues)
  • DARPA-GRANDIS Phase II, $14,000,000, 11/20/10-11/19/12 (STTRAM: Device and circuit issues)
  • UVA NanoStar, $30,000 (gift grant), 06/01/11-05/31/12 (Information transfer in nano-bio systems)
  • SRC, $40,000 (gift grant), 03/01/11-08/31/11 (Biocomputing)
  • NSF NEB, $2M, 09/01/11-08/31/15 (Multiferroics based logic)
  • UVa SEAS Seed funding, $40K, 2011 (Nanoscale heat flow)
  • NSF IDR, $600K, 2011-2015 (Nanoscale thermal engineering)

    Teaching

  • Electromagnetic Fields, ECE309 (Fall '05-'07, Fall '11)
  • Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, ECE587/687 (Spring '06-'09), ECE5502/6502 (Spring '10-'11)
  • Solid State Devices, ECE6163 (Fall '08-'10)

    Service

  • Panelist, NASA Tech Roadmap, NASA/NRC workshop, Keck center, DC Mar '11.
  • Panelist, DoD Strategic Meeting, UVa 2011.
  • Referee activity with over 18 journals
  • Organizing Committee, International Conference on Molecular Electronics and Sensing ('03-'06)
  • Session Chair, APS'02, EMC'04, MRS'09
  • Department Committees -- Eminent Speakers Committee, Undergraduate Enrichment Committee
  • UVa Computational Council
  • Organizing Committee, EMC'09,'10,'11
  • Organizing Committee, NanoInsight '06, '09, '11
  • Program Committee, Villa Conference on Interactions among Nanostructures (VCIAN) '11
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Nanoscience, Technology and Societal Implications (NSTSI11), '11
  • Program Committee, Narrow Gap Semiconductors 15 (NGS15), '11-12
  • Program Committee, AVS2012
  • Program Committee, DRC2012
  • Program Committee, IWCE2012
  • Publications co-chair, IEEE-Nano2010