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Kameshwar Poolla received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1980, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Center for Mathematical System Theory at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1984. He served as faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana from 1984 to 1991, and then joined the University of California, Berkeley as a Professor in 1991. He has held visiting appointments at Honeywell, McGill University, and MIT and has experience as a Field Engineer at Schlumberger in Paris. Poolla co-founded OnWafer Technologies, a start-up dedicated to yield enhancement metrology solutions for the semiconductor industry, which was later acquired by KLA-Tencor in 2007. He has received several accolades, including the 1984 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the University of Florida, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988, and the Distinguished Teaching Award at UC Berkeley in 1997. His research interests focus on System Identification, Design, Modeling Analysis, Design Manufacturability, and Semiconductor Manufacturing.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and research in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Patents related to yield enhancement in semiconductor manufacturing.
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