
Completed her MSc (Physics) from IIT Bombay in 1980 and PhD from TIFR Mumbai in 1985. She carried out Post-doctoral work at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), USA from 1986-88. She was a Faculty in Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur during 1988-91. Since 1991, she has been a Faculty in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, 1991 and is currently a Professor. She was a Visiting Scientist at the Micromachined Products Division of Analog Devices, USA in 2000. Her current areas of interest are in Biosensors and MEMS and she has published around 100 papers in journals and International conference proceedings. She has guided 4 PhD and 13 MS (by research) scholars. At present 3 PhD and 2 MS scholars are working under her supervision. She has successfully completed 14 sponsored projects (8 as PI) and is currently engaged in 5 projects (2 as PI).

Obtained B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) in 1983 from IIT Madras. Based on his academic credentials, he was directly admitted into the PhD program and appointed as a Senior Scientific Officer, in 1983. He obtained the PhD degree in 1989. During November 1991 – November 1993 he was on leave from the institute to work on semiconductor product development as an entrepreneur. During January 2000 - April 2001, he was on a sabbatical to University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA. Since then, he has made summer visits to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has authored numerous articles in reputed journals, books and conferences, and has been granted three Indian patents. These contributions deal with simple analytical models and assessment of novel concepts by numerical simulation, for MOSFETs, Heterojunction FETs and BJTs, and with electrochemical metallization processes. He serves as a consultant to industries for development of processes for manufacturing semiconductor devices. In the field of education, his contributions include a video course on Solid State Devices being telecast nationwide on the Ekalavya TV channel, and a lecture-cum-activity course for fostering research skills among graduate students. He is the recipient of the 2005 Vikram Sarabhai Research award in the field of Electronics, Informatics, Telematics and automation for his work on device modeling and process development. He is a member of the national working group on Nanotechnology set up by Department of Information Technology, Govt of India.

She received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1982, M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D degrees from I.I.T. Madras in 1984 and 1988 respectively. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on high pressure oxidation of silicon and GaAs. She was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1991 and spent one year in Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. Since 1993, she has been a Faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Madras and is currently a Professor. Her research interest is in the area of Semiconductor Device Technology and Modelling as well as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). She has more than seventy research publications in International Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences and has co-authored a book on Semiconductor Devices – Modelling & Technology. She has also developed a 40 hour video course on “VLSI Technology”.

Received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1982, M.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from I.I.T. Madras in 1984 and Ph.D from I.I.T. Kharagpur in 1988. His Ph.D. dissertation was on analytical modeling of small geometry MOSFETs with nonuniformly doped channels. He joined as a Lecturer in I.I.T. Kharagpur in the same year. He has been a Faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Madras since 1993 and is currently a Professor. As a DAAD Fellow, he worked at the Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Darmstadt, Germany during 1991-92 and again in 1997. His research interests are in the areas of Semiconductor Device Modelling and Technology as well as MEMS. He has about seventy five research publications in International Journals and Proceedings of International Conferences and has co- authored a book on Semiconductor Devices – Modelling & Technology. He has also developed a 40 hour video course on “Digital Integrated Circuits”.

Received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2005. He did his M. Tech. in 2001 from the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India and B. Tech. in 1999 from the Kalyani Government Engineering College, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India. He worked as a guest scientist in modeling group at Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics, IHP GmbH, Germany for few months in between 2003 and 2004. He worked as a Post-Doctorate Fellow at Dresden University of Technology, Germany on Bipolar Transistor Compact Modeling, during 2005 and 2006. He joined as Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of IIT Madras in January 2007 and is working with this institute till now. He published few papers in reputed international journals, mainly in the area of compact modeling. His current research interests include compact modeling of bipolar and MOS transistors and circuit design for RF applications.

Born in Contai, India, in 1970. He had received his M.Sc. degree in Solid State Physics from Vidysagar University, India in 1996. Afterwards, he started his research work in the field of lithium niobate based integrated optics at the Microelectronics Center, IIT Kharagpur, India until January 1999. Then he joined in a Ph.D. Program in integrated optics under Prof. Wolfgang Sohler, University of Paderborn, Germany and obtained Dr. rer. nat. in April 2003. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "Integrated optical DFB and DBR lasers in Er:LiNbO3 waveguides". Then he carried out postdoctoral research programs in Osaka University, Japan and Lehigh University, USA, respectively. During this period, he did research on integrated optical Type-II quantum photonics devices (in Osaka) and the stabilization of thermally fixed photorefractive Bragg gratings (in Lehigh). In April 2005, he rejoined the group of Prof. Sohler and was involved in nonlinear integrated optics research program. Since August 2006, he has been associated with the Microelectronics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras as an Assistant Professor. Until now, Dr. Das has published ten research papers in reputed international journals and presented his research works in more than 15 international conferences held world wide. His current research interest is optoelectronics, integrated optical devices and photonics integrated circuits.

Obtained her Ph.D in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1997. Her Ph.D work was in the area of Optical Array Illuminators. She was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt award in 1998 and spent more than two years at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Her research work there included development of an optical pick-up for CD/DVD systems and design of diffractive optical elements for beam shaping of high power laser beams. She subsequently joined the MEMS division of Analog Devices, Cambridge, USA where she worked on the design of an optical MEMS switch. She has been an assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras since 2005. Her current research interests are optical MEMS, diffractive optics and fibre interferometry. |