Electrical and Computer Engineering

Amitabh Chatterjee

PhD Candidate

amitabh@ece.ucsb.edu

Amitabh Chatterjee graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India, with a MTech degree (5 year integrated) in electrical engineering and subsequently worked as a scientist at the Center For Advanced Technology, Department of Atomic Energy, Indore, India, in the Laser Physics Division during 1996-2000.  During the summer of 2002 and 2003 he was as an intern at the Circuit Research Lab of Intel in Hillsboro, OR, and the Component Research Lab of Intel in Santa Clara, CA, respectively, while working on his M.S. degree at Vanderbilt University. At present, his doctoral research is focused on modeling of electrostatic discharge phenomenon in nanoscale CMOS devices under the supervision of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee at UCSB.

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Hamed Farshbaf Dadgour

PhD Candidate

hamed@ece.ucsb.edu

Hamed Farshbaf Dadgour was born in Tabriz, Iran. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1999 and from University of Tehran in 2001, respectively. Subsequently, he was instructor of VLSI course at the University of Tehran in 2002 and then he worked at Sharif University of Technology as a research assistant until 2004. He is currently a PhD student in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is working in the research group of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee. His current research is focused on parameter variation issues in high-performance and low-power nano-scaled Integrated Circuits.

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Yasin Khatami

PhD Student

yasin@ece.ucsb.edu

Yasin Khatami joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, as a B.Sc. student after receiving his diploma from Sampad School in Tabriz, Iran. He was awarded a fellowship from the Iranian Oil Company for his undergraduate study, and received his B.Sc. degree in both Electrical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he was a graduate student at Sharif University, working on superconducting systems and received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. In Fall 2007, he joined the Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory in University of California, Santa Barbara, and is working toward his PhD degree. His current research is focused on nanowire based devices and circuits.

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Seshadri Kiran Kolluri

PhD Student

seshadri@ece.ucsb.edu

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Seshadri Kiran Kolluri was born in Andhra Pradesh, India. He received his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2004. Subsequently, he worked in Neomagic Semiconductor India (headquartered at Santa Clara, California) for one year. He is currently working towards his M.S./Ph.D. degree in the ECE Department of UCSB under the guidance of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee. His research project is focused on modeling and analysis of electrothermal issues in emerging nanoelectronic devices.

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Chaitanya Kshirsagar

PhD Student

chaitanya@ece.ucsb.edu

Chaitanya Kshirsagar received the B.E. degree (First Class with Distinction) in Electronics and Telecommunication from Government Engineering College, Aurangabad, India, in 2003. Subsequently, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Microelectronics Laboratory, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where he designed and modeled MEMS based accelerometers and non-classical CMOS devices including Double-Gate MOSFETs and FinFETs.  During October-December 2006, he was as a visiting scholar in NRL. Since Spring 2007, he has been working toward the MS/PhD degree in the ECE Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara under the supervision of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee.  His current research is focused on the high-frequency characterization and modeling of carbon-nanotube based FETs.

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Hong Li

PhD Student

hongli@ece.ucsb.edu

Hong Li was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. He received his B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2003. During his undergraduate years, Mr. Li was awarded a number of prizes for outstanding academic performance including an Excellent Bachelor’s Thesis Award. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, where he completed his M.S. program in 2005 and was enrolled as a doctoral student. From April 2007 to July 2007, he worked as a visiting scholar in NRL at University of California, Santa Barbara. In Fall 2007, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UCSB as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee. His current research is focused on the design, modeling and fabrication of carbon nanotube based VLSI interconnection technology and passive devices for high-speed mixed-signal & RF ICs.

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Seid Hadi Rasouli

Seid Hadi Rasouli was born in Sari, Iran. Hadi received both his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran in 2001 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006, he was a research assistant and lab instructor at the University of Tehran. In Winter 2007, he joined Prof. Banerjee's research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Ph.D. student. His current research is focused on low-power and robust digital circuit design using emerging CMOS technologies.

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Navin Srivastava

PhD Candidate

navins@ece.ucsb.edu

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Navin Srivastava received the Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in June 2000. Subsequently he worked in the Electronic Design Automation industry for three years, first at Delsoft India Pvt. Ltd located in Noida, India, and then at Atrenta India (headquartered at San Jose, California). He joined UCSB in the Spring of 2003 and is currently pursuing his MS/PhD degree in the ECE Department while studying nano-scale interconnect issues in VLSI technologies with Prof. Kaustav Banerjee.

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Chuan Xu

PhD Student

chuanxu@ece.ucsb.edu

Chuan Xu was born in Hefei, China. He received both his B.S. (microelectronics) and M.S. (microelectronics and solid-state electronics) degrees from the Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. During his master’s degree, he worked on the fabrication and characterization of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors. In Fall 2007, he joined Prof. Banerjee's research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His current research is focused on nano-scale interconnect issues in VLSI technologies.

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Yi (Kevin) Yang

Undergraduate Researcher

Kevin_yang@umail.ucsb.edu

Yi (Kevin) Yang was born in Shanghai, China.  He is currently a senior year undergraduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is working in the research group of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee.  His research project is focused on developing a methodology for incorporating electrothermal effects in circuit (SPICE) simulations involving FinFET devices.

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Gian Luca Loi

Gian Luca Loi was born in Lanusei, Italy.  He began his undergraduate studies during 1997-98 at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.  Since 1999 he has been pursuing the Laurea Degree at the University of Cagliari, Italy, in electronic engineering.  In 2004, he won an Italian scholarship for pursuing research abroad.  He worked in Prof. Banerjee's group, as an exchange student in 2005,  on the modelling and analysis of novel three-dimensional integrated circuit architectures.

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Kyoung-Eun Kweon

Kyoung-Eun Kweon was born in Pucheon, Korea.  She was an exchange student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, while working on her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yonsei University, Korea.  She worked in Prof. Banerjee’s group from January-September 2004 on the modeling and analysis of carbon-nanotube based transistors and circuits. She received her B.S degree from Yonsei University, Korea in 2005.

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Sheng-Chih Lin

PhD, 2007

Sheng-Chih Lin received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1996.  From 1998 to 2002, he was with the Phoenixtec Electronics Company, Ltd., and the CHROMA ATE Inc., respectively, in Taiwan. He joined Prof. Banerjee's  research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Winter 2003 and received the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering in December 2007.  His doctoral thesis focused on the development of a self-consistent thermal profile simulation methodology for nanoscale high-performance ICs and its implications for power and thermal management.  His research also introduced a novel technique by which circuit designers can comprehend the implications of design choices on chip-level thermal management issues including  packaging/cooling solutions and vice-versa. During the summer of 2005 and 2006, he worked as an intern in the Assembly and Test Technology Development of Intel in Chandler, AZ.  His research interests include electrothermal modeling and analysis of integrated circuits, variation-aware circuit design and optimization, and power/thermal management for nanoscale CMOS ICs. During his doctoral work, he authored or coauthored over 15 papers in journals and refereed international conferences as well as a book chapter on thermal issues in 3-D ICs (Springer-Verlag, 2008).  He was also the corecipient of an IEEE Micro Award for a 3D IC related paper  (in ASPLOS 2006) that was selected among the 10 most significant research publications in computer architecture in 2006. At present, he is with the ATD Division of Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona, as a Member of Technical Staff.
 

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Sungjun Im

PhD, 2006

Sungjun Im received the B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2001. Subsequently, he joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and received his PhD in 2006.  His thesis was jointly supervised by Prof. Kenneth Goodson (Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University) and Prof. Kaustav Banerjee. His thesis focused on Thermal Conduction Phenomena in VLSI Circuits and Systems. Sungjun is the recipient of the Seoul National University Honors Scholarship from 1994-1997. His research interests include nanoscale conduction heat transport phenomena, interconnect reliability and performance optimization in high-performance VLSI and 3-D ICs, measurement and modeling of thermo physical properties of low-k dielectric films and development of cooling technologies for integrated heterogeneous circuits and systems.  He is currently working with R&D division of Samsung Electronics, South Korea.

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Santanu Mahapatra

PhD, 2005

Santanu Mahapatra was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He received his B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in the field of Electronics and Telecommunication in 1999 and his M. Tech (Master of Technology) degree in Electrical Engineering (specializing in Microelectronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur in March 2001.  Subsequently, he worked in Atrenta Incorporation as an EDA tool developer for three months. In July 2001, he joined Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and his thesis was jointly supervised by Prof. Adrian Ionescu (EPFL) and Prof. Kaustav Banerjee (UCSB). He received his PhD in 2005 from EPFL. His thesis focused on Modeling and Simulation of Few-Electron Devices. At present, he is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

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Kwang-Hoon Oh

PhD, 2003

Kwang-Hoon Oh received the B.S. (1990) and M.S. (1992) degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Korea. He joined Samsung Electronics in 1992, where he worked on the design and development of Power MOSFETs and IGBTs. He joined Stanford University in 1997 and received the PhD degree in electrical engineering in January 2003. His doctoral thesis, which focused on the investigation of ESD performance in advanced CMOS technology, was jointly supervised by Prof. Robert W. Dutton at Stanford University and Prof. Kaustav Banerjee at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At present, he is working for Fairchild Semiconductor, Korea, as a Member of Technical Staff.

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Amir H. Ajami

PhD, 2002

Amir Ajami received the B.Sc. degree in Control Systems from the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Tehran in 1993 and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of EE-Systems at the University of Southern California in 1998.  He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in December 2002.  His doctoral research was carried out under the joint supervision of Professor Massoud Pedram at USC and Prof. Kaustav Banerjee at UC Santa Barbara. His thesis focused on the effects of non-uniform substrate temperature in high performance integrated circuits. At present, he is a member of the R&D team of Magma Design Automation in Cupertino, California.

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Vineet Wason

MS, 2005

Vineet Wason was born in Faridabad, Haryana, India. He received his B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) degree (2003) in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. In the summer of 2001, he worked as an intern at the Daimler Chrysler Research Center in Bangalore, India. During the summer of 2002, he worked with the Controls and Signal Theory group at the Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern in Germany. He is a recipient of the National Talent Award (1997) from the Govt. of India. In Fall 2003, he joined the research group of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee in the ECE department at UCSB and received the M.S. degree in 2005 for his work on parameter variations in nanoscale VLSI. At present, he is working for AMD in Sunnyvale, CA.

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Injoon Jo

MS, 2004

Injoon Jo was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S. degree (1994) in computer engineering from Seoul National University, Korea. After graduation, he worked at Samsung Data Systems Co. as a programming instructor, and at Samsung Electronics Co. as a hardware engineer, respectively. In 2002, he received his second bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He received the M.S. degree (2004) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at  UCSB. His M.S thesis focused on thermally aware substrate noise coupling in the mixed signal IC’s. He is currently with LG Electronics, South Korea.

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Je-Hyoung Park

MS, 2004

Je-Hyoung Park was born in Daegu, Korea. He received his B.E. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Korea in 2001. In October 2003, he joined the research group of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee. He received his M.S. degree in 2004 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB. His M.S. thesis focused on modeling high frequency effects in VLSI interconnects. He is currently pursuing his PhD at UC Santa Cruz.

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Man L. Mui

MS, 2004

Man L. Mui was born in Hong Kong, China. He earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2002. In Fall 2002, he joined the Illinois Center for the Integrated Micro-Systems group at the Coordinated Science Laboratory as a Research Assistant. His research focused on interconnect performance and modeling for VLSI circuit designs and was jointly supervised by Prof. Amit Mehrotra at UIUC and Prof. Kaustav Banerjee at UCSB. He received his M.S. degree in 2004 in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His M.S. thesis focused on interconnect performance modeling and analysis for high performance ICs. He is currently with AMD, USA.

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