Short Profile
Shreepad Karmalkar
is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at IITM. He received the B. Tech and
accelerated PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology Madras (IITM), in 1983 and 1989, respectively. He has held
visiting research / teaching assignments at several US universities,
namely, University of California, Santa Barbara; Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, New York; and University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
He has authored numerous
articles in journals, conferences and books, and has been awarded three
patents in the areas of semiconductor device modeling and process
development. His recent work is on modeling and simulation of power
devices, nano-devices, GaN HEMTs and solar cells.
He has received the 2006 Vikram Sarabhai Award
for research and a 2007 IBM Faculty Award for research and
teaching. He has acted as a consultant to industries for developing
manufacturing processes for semiconductor devices.
His contributions in the field of education include three
widely viewed online video
courses on Solid State Devices, Semiconductor Device Modeling and Introduction to Research (see links below). The latter is a
lecture-cum-activity oriented course to foster research skills among
research scholars. He initiated this as a compulsory course for all
research scholars in IITM and has conducted over 30 workshops country-wide.
He has also conducted solely or jointly over 80 Faculty Development sessions on various aspects of
“How teachers can make a difference” in institutions including
IITs, IISERs, NITs, and IIIT. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on
Education (first ever from India) in which he has authored three papers.
He is a President’s nominee in the IIT
Council for “contributions in education, science or
technology”, and recipient of the 2021 VLSI Society of
India Best Faculty Award for "contributions in the area of
teaching, popularizing and creating some of the best minds in
Microelectronics in the last 30 years in India".
He is the Chairman of AICTE’s
All India Board of PG Education and Research. He was a member of the National Working
Group on Nanotechnology set up by Department of Information Technology,
Govt. of India, and a member of AICTE’s All India Board of
Undergraduate Studies as a representative of IITs.
He is Head of the Teaching Learning
Center, and was the Coordinator of the Educational Technology Cell, IIT
Madras. He was the Vice-Chairman of JEE 2006 and Chairman of JEE 2007
operations in the South Zone.
He is a strong espouser of holistic
education, and a multilingual – can read, write and speak –
Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, and can converse in – Thelugu,
Thamizh and to an extent, Sanskrit.
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Video Lectures
available
Solid State Devices, hosted on NPTEL and YouTube.
Semiconductor
Device Modeling, hosted on NPTEL and YouTube.
Introduction to
Research, hosted on YouTube.
Follow no one, but
learn from everyone, and Acknowledge it too, hosted on YouTube
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