Speakers

Dr. Baquer Mazhari received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 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. He is a senior faculty member in the Samtel Centre for Display Technologies.

Dr. Sourabh Lodha graduated from IIT Bombay in 1999 with a B. Tech (EE) followed by a Masters (ECE) and PhD (ECE) from Purdue University in 2001 and 2004 respectively. His graduate research focused on III-V metal/semiconductor interfaces and molecular electronics. From 2005-2010 he worked at Intel Corporation in Portland, USA, where he was part of the team responsible for the research and development of 45, 32 and 22 Si CMOS process technologies. He joined IIT Bombay in July 2010 where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering, PI of the nanofabrication facility and co-PI of IIT Bombay’s Research Park. He has been awarded the Swarnajayanti fellowship by DST and young investigator and best research paper awards by IIT Bombay. His research interests span devices and materials in the areas of advanced CMOS technologies, 2D (opto)electronics, Si photovoltaics and gallium oxide power electronics. He has co- authored over 120 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

Dr. 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 Semiconductor Research and Development Center in IBM, where he worked on compact modeling of analog and RF bulk/SOI CMOS technologies. He was a postdoctoral researcher 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 is the developer of industry standard BSIM-BULK (BSIM6), BSIM-IMG, BSIM-CMG and ASM-GaN-HEMT models. He was awarded Ramanujan fellowship in 2012, IBM faculty award in 2013, P.K. Kelkar fellowship in 2015, CNR Rao faculty award, Humboldt & the Swarnjayanti Fellowships in 2018.

Dr. Abhishek Dixit is from 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.

Dr. Aloke Dutta 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 Design. He is also the author of the Book Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, which is often used as a textbook for semiconductor courses in various institutes all over the world.

Dr. Sajad Loan received his B. E from NIT Srinagar (erstwhile REC Srinagar) in 1997 and the PhD degree from IIT Kanpur in 2010. He is currently a Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia Delhi since 2018. His current research interests include Nanoelectronics and Devices , VLSI design, Silicon-on-Insulator Based Novel Nano devices etc.

Dr. Farooq Khanday received his B.Sc., M.Sc., M. Phil. and Ph.D. Degree from University of Kashmir in 2001, 2004 2010 and 2013 respectively. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir. His current research interest includes Low-voltage analog integrated circuit design, Neural Network Circuit Design, Biomedical Circuit Design and nano-electronics.He is the author or co-author of more than 40 indexed national and international journal of repute. He is also serving as a reviewer for some national and International scientific journals in Electronics.

Dr. Najeeb - ud -Din is affiliated to Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is currently providing services as Professor and has published numerous publications in various national and international peer-reviewed journals and presented scientific papers across the world. Because of the active association with different societies and academies as well as the contributions, he has been recognized by the subject experts around the world. His contributions are appreciated by various reputed awards.

Dr. Amandeep Singh received his B. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Beant College of Engineering and Technology,Gurdaspur, Punjab in 2010.He received his PhD from National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar in 2017.He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering with National Institute of Technology Srinagar.

Dr. Sheikh Aamir Ahsan received his B. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Jaipur in 2011. He received his PhD from Nanolab, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering with National Institute of Technology Srinagar, where he is involved in nanoelectronic devices - simulation and theoretical modeling for circuit design. He was a visiting researcher with Keysight Technologies in 2016 and a Postdoctoral Fellow with Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, New York University, NY, USA in 2018.