Kaustav Banerjee received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California-Berkeley in 1999 working with Prof. Chenming Hu. In July 2002, he joined the Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB as an assistant professor, received tenure in 2004 and attained full professorship in 2007.

He was with Stanford University during 1999-02 as a Research Associate at the Center for Integrated Systems. From February to August 2002, he was a Visiting Faculty at the Circuit Research Labs of Intel, Hillsboro, OR.  In the past, he has also held summer/visiting positions at Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX (1993-1997), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (2001).

Dr. Banerjee’s doctoral research at Berkeley and subsequent work at Stanford on thermal issues in integrated circuits 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 received a number of awards in recognition of his work, including the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award (2004), a Research Award from the ESD Association (2005), a Best Paper Award at the Design Automation Conference (2001), an Outstanding Student Paper Award at the VLSI/ULSI Multilevel Interconnection Conference (2005) and an IEEE Micro Top Picks Award (2006).

His present research interests focus on nanometer scale issues in high-performance VLSI as well as on circuits and systems issues in emerging nanoelectronics.  At UCSB, Dr. Banerjee directs the Nanoelectronics Research Lab and is an affiliated faculty at the California NanoSystems Institute.  His research has been chronicled in over 150 journal and refereed conference papers. He has also co-edited a book titled Emerging Nanoelectronics: Life with and after CMOS (Springer—Verlag, 2004) and coauthored two book chapters on 3-D integrated circuits.  

Dr. Banerjee has served on the technical program committees of the IEDM, ICCAD, DAC, IRPS, EOS/ESD Symposium, ISQED and ISPD.  He has also served on the organizing committee of ISQED at various positions including Technical Program Chair (2002) and General Chair (2005).  At present, he serves on the IEEE EDS Nanotechnology Committee.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is listed in Who’s Who in America (since 2003) and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (since 2005).