简介

Kaustav Banerjee is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at UC Santa Barbara. He is also an Affiliated Faculty with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) at UCSB. Initially trained as a physicist, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (with minors in Physics and Materials Science) from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999, working with Prof. Chenming Hu. His research interests include nanometer-scale issues in CMOS VLSI as well as emerging nanoelectronics. He is currently involved in exploring the physics, technology, and applications of low-dimensional nanomaterials for next-generation green electronics, photonics and bioelectronics. Prof. Banerjee has made seminal contributions in almost every area he has worked on, and his technical ideas and innovations have seen wide-spread proliferation both in the industry and academia as exemplified by his h-index of 45 (from Google Scholar) as of June 2013. His doctoral research at Berkeley and subsequent work at Stanford on thermal issues in integrated circuits played a pioneering role in introducing the concept of “thermal integrity”, which set the foundation for Gradient Design Automation, the first company to introduce temperature-aware IC design technology in the Electronic Design Automation Industry. He has also made a number of key contributions in the area of nanoscale IC interconnects and innovative interconnect solutions including 3-D ICs and carbon-based interconnects, which have helped shape the semiconductor industry's R&D efforts in those areas.