Junkai Jiang

Junkai Jiang was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in microelectronics from the Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2012. In Fall 2012, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Barbara as a MS/PHD student in Nanoelectronics Research Lab under the supervision of Prof. Kaustav Banerjee, and received his PhD degree in Fall 2019. His research focused on the modeling, design and characterization of emerging interconnect structures and materials. Junkai received his PhD degree

Junkai's doctoral research was recognized with the 2018 IEEE EDS PhD Student Fellowship, the ECE Department Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, and UCSB's Lancaster Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering in 2020. He is also the recipient of a Best Student Paper Award of 2018 IEEE S3S Conference. (2019 - Google)