Speakers

Aloke Kumar Dutta, was born in Calcutta, India, in 1960. He received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. Since 1990, he is a faculty member of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His current research interests are focused on submicron MOSFET modeling and mixed-signal VLSI.


Yogesh Singh Chauhan, received the M.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur in 2003 and Ph.D. degree from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland in 2007. From 2007-2010, He was with Semiconudctor Research and Development Center in IBM, where he worked on compact modelling of analog and RF bulk/SOI CMOS technologies. He was a postdoctoral research at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010 and University of California Berkekely in 2010-2012. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an assistant professor in 2012, where he is currently an associate professor. He has written one book and published more than 100 international journal and conference publications on the physics, characterization and modeling of nanoscale semiconductor devices. He was awarded Ramanujan fellowship in 2012, IBM faculty award in 2013 and P.K. Kelkar fellowship in 2015.


B. Mazhari , received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Khragpur, India, in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1993. Since 1993, he has been with Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His research interests include organic electronics, semiconductor device modeling and analog circuit design.


S. S. K. Iyer , received the B.Tech. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California Berkeley in 1998. He was Staff Engineer and later Advisory Engineer at IBM Microelectronics, Hopewell Junction New York during 1998 to 2004. Since 2004, he has been with Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include Organic Solar Cells.


Abhisek Dixit , is a faculty member in the department of electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 2013. He works on design, modeling, processing and characterization of CMOS and solar cell devices. Prior to joining IITD, he worked at IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC) for more than 6 years as a senior technical leader in enablement and TCAD groups. Before IBM, he worked at International Microelectronics Center (IMEC) Leuven in CMOS device integration group for 5 years and got a Ph.D. degree from Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium in 2007. He has 6 US patents and more than 40 publications in apex international conferences and journals.


Amit Agarwal, received Masters degree (2002-2005) and Ph.D. (2005-2009) in physical sciences from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He was a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher, with Prof. Rosario Fazio and Dr. Marco Polini, at the QTI group at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and works on quantum many body effects and transport properties of low dimensional quantum systems. He is also involved in atomistic simulation and modeling of nanoscale devices and materials. Currently, he is in the process of establishing his research group in the Physics department of the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur.


Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, received the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. After the Ph.D. degree, he worked with the GE Global Research Centre Bangalore for one year in 2008. At GE, he contributed significantly on wireless power transfer, magneto-caloric refrigerator, perambulatory stroke detection, and subsea communication. He is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India since 2009. His research interests include RF circuit design, meta-materials, microwave filters and antennas, dielectric resonators, and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) techniques.