2nd Annual Workshop on Emerging Trends in Semiconductor Technology
Emerging Trends in Semiconductor Technology is the first workshop hosted by the University at Buffalo’s Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies. This workshop brings together academic, industry and community leaders to focus on developing: Energy efficient microelectronics to address the ever-increasing computing and communication requirements; Novel widegap semiconductors for electric vehicles and power girds; and Advanced photovoltaic (solar) technologies to meet the growing energy demands while achieving a net-zero carbon footprint.
The UB Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies fosters multi-disciplinary collaborations between researchers to address pressing needs of modern computing, green automotives and clean energy.
Details about the agenda and order of speakers will be announced shortly.
Opening Remarks
Kemper Lewis
Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
Kemper E. Lewis, PhD, MBA, and dean of UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is a global leader in engineering design, system optimization and advanced manufacturing. Prior to being named dean, Lewis served as chair of UB's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he was also the Moog Professor of Innovation.
Lewis is also the director of UB’s Community of Excellence in Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), an initiative that harnesses the strengths of faculty across the university to develop advanced manufacturing and design processes including autonomy, intelligence and materials technologies.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has served on the National Academies Panel on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering. He has published over 200 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings and has been principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling more than $33 million.
Active in the profession, Lewis chaired ASME’s Mechanical Engineering Department Head Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his teaching and research excellence from several professional societies, including ASME, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Lewis joined UB in 1996. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering and a BA in mathematics from Duke University, his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from UB.
Jonathan Bird
Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo
Jonathan Bird joined the faculty of the UB Department of Electrical Engineering as Professor in Fall 2004. Prior to this, he obtained his BSc (First-Class Honors) and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He was a JSPS visiting fellow at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) from 1991 - 1992, after which he joined the Frontier Research Program of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN, also in Japan). In 1997, he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, where he spent seven years before joining UB. Prof. Bird's research is in the area of nanoelectronics. He is the co-author of nearly 300 peer reviewed publications as well as of undergraduate and graduate textbooks.
Photovoltaics Speakers
Laura Schelhas
Group Manager, Hybrid and Nanoscale Materials Chemistry Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Laura Schelhas received her doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013, where she studied the influence of nanoscale architecture on the materials properties in magnetic and magnetoelectric materials. In 2014, she accepted a postdoctoral position at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory using in-situ and operando methods to study both the formation and degradation of optoelectronic materials. She became staff in the Applied Energy Division in 2016 and served as the deputy director of the division and the group leader for the Grid Integration, Systems & Mobility (GISMo) Lab before taking her group manager position at NREL. Her current research interests are focused on the intersection between photovoltaic reliability, emerging new technologies, and materials characterization.
Matthew Lumb
Founder and CEO, Polaris Semiconductor
Seth Hubbard
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
Seth Hubbard is currently a Professor of Microsystem Engineering and Physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology as well as serving as Director of the NanoPower Research Laboratory. Dr. Hubbard currently leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and research staff working on the epitaxial growth, fabrication and characterization of nanostructured solar photovoltaic devices. He has received over $10M in funded external research related to photovoltaic device development, has authored or co-authored over 170 journal and conference publications on electronic and photovoltaic devices and received an NSF CAREER Award as well as the RIT Trustee Scholarship Award. Dr. Hubbard serves as an Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics and is actively involved in the organization of the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference. He has been the advisor to 6 post-doctoral fellows, 7 PhD graduates and over 15 MS students. Prof. Hubbard received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan under Prof. Dimitris Pavlidis studying the effects of materials properties and epitaxial device design on high power GaN and AlGaN heterojunction field effect transistors grown using vapor phase epitaxy.
Widegap-Semiconductor Speakers
Alan Doolittle
Pettit Professor in Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Georgia Tech University
Professor Doolittle is a native of Jonesboro, Georgia. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors in 1989. He later received his PhD in electrical engineering in 1996 from Georgia Tech.
His thesis work revolved around identifying the device limiting defects in photovoltaic silicon materials using several custom designed and patented tools. He later worked as a Research Engineer II in the area of compound semiconductor growth with emphasis on wide bandgap semiconductors. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 2001.
During his time at Georgia Tech he has helped develop academic programs in the areas of microelectronic fabrication, materials growth, characterization, and measurement system design. Professor Doolittle consults with industry in the areas of law, materials testing, MBE growth, and test equipment development.
Sudip Mazumder
Distinguished Professor, Robert Uyetani Collegiate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
Sudip K. Mazumder is a UIC Distinguished Professor and Robert Uyetani Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and is the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems (LESES). He has over 30 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations and has served as Technical Consultant for several industries. He also serves as the President of , a small business organization that he setup in 2008.
He received his PhD degree from Virginia Tech in 2001 and the MS degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1993. At Virginia Tech, he conducted his Doctoral work under the joint supervision of Prof. Dushan Boroyevich, a Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a renowned leader in power electronics, and Prof. Ali H. Nayfeh, regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering.
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Energy Efficient Microelectronics Speakers
Shriram Ramanathan
Professor and Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering
Shriram Ramanathan is the inaugural Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering in the College of Engineering at Rutgers University. Previously, he has served as a faculty member at Purdue University (School of Engineering, MSE, ECE (Courtesy) and Harvard University (Applied Physics, SEAS) and as a member of research staff at Components Research, Intel. Ramanathan serves as an editor / editorial board member for various journals publishing in physical sciences, is a member of the Board of Visitors for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, and has co-organized numerous symposia for organizations such as Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Materials Research Society, American Physical Society.
Gina Adam
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
Adam received a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering in Dmitri Strukov's group and a M.A. degree in teaching and learning from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. She was a research scientist with the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest) and a visiting scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Amongst her scientific achievements are the first demonstration of a stacked RRAM crossbar with 4 bit precision, high yield functional integration of stacked RRAM onto foundry CMOS and the first perceptron network implemented in monolithically integrated RRAM crossbars. Her honors include the International Fulbright Science and Technology award (2010), the Mirzayan fellowship at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2012), the Marie Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship from the European Commission (2016), the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (2023), the NSF CAREER award (2023) and the DOE Early Career Research Program award (2024). She also received the GW Engineering Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award (2022), the GW-wide Morton A. Bender Teaching Award (2023), the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral-level Teaching Award (2024) and the IEEE HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (2024).
Yingying Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University at Buffalo
Yingying Wu is a postdoctoral associate and a postdoctoral fellow in CIQM at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. Prior to that, she received her MPhil degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University. Her research interests focus on exploring emerging quantum materials and devices for nanoelectronics.
