Hello!

I am Asir Intisar Khan, currently a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at U.C. Berkeley (with Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin’s group), and a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Stanford, where I am leading a multidisciplinary effort on topological semimetals for low-power nanoelectronics. I received my Ph.D. (Aug. 2023) from the Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, supervised by Professor Eric Pop, while working very closely with Profs. H.-S. Philip Wong, Kenneth Goodson, and Krishna Saraswat. I received my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the same department at Stanford. Before joining Stanford in 2018, I received another M.S. (2018) and a B.S. (2016) from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

My research efforts and vision encompass exploring novel materials and their functionalities to enable energy-efficient memory, computing devices, and interconnect for 3D heterogeneous integration. To support my research vision, I have combined various material deposition and optimization techniques, nanoscale device fabrication, electrical measurements, electro-thermal and microstructural characterization as well as electro-thermal simulations. In doing so, I have led interdisciplinary collaborations across multiple schools (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Univ. of Maryland, Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Illinois Champaign, Ajou University, and RWTH Aachen) and leading semiconductor companies including TSMC and IBM (where I also held research intern positions).

I am a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2020-2023), Russell & Sigurd Varian Award of the American Vacuum Society (2023), 2022 IEEE Electron Device Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship, 2022 MRS Gold Student Award, Best Student Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Technology Symposium, one of the Best Presenter Awards at the 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, Best Presenter Award at 2023 AVS Electronic Materials & Photonics Division and 2023 SRC TECHCON.