Kaustav Banerjee Named 2012 IEEE Fellow

From UCSB CoE News Release:

The College of Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is proud to announce the elevation of three of its faculty members, including Kaustav Banerjee, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects, to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

Kaustav Banerjee Banerjee is being recognized as an IEEE Fellow by his peers in just his first decade of academia. His research has been fundamental to comprehending the complex nature of nanoscale interconnection structures that link billions of transistors and central to improving the performance, energy-efficiency and reliability of modern microelectronic chips including multi-core microprocessors and network-on-chip designs. Banerjee's seminal works quantifying the benefits of 3-D ICs in mitigating interconnect related problems and highlighting their unique advantages for heterogeneous integration of disparate materials (such as Si and III-V) and technologies (e.g. logic, memory, RF, MEMS, Optoelectronics) have triggered wide-scale proliferation of this technology. Banerjee is also a recognized thought leader in graphenebased next-generation green electronics. His work brought carbon-nanomaterials for ultra-low-power interconnects and low-loss passives to the forefront of emerging technologies in the semiconductor industry.

Banerjee is the Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Lab at UCSB, and an affiliated faculty member with the California NanoSystems Institute and the Institute for Energy Efficiency. He joined the faculty at UCSB in 2002. Banerjee received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.