Dr. Mani Vaidyanathan

Biography

Mani Vaidyanathan is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta, specializing in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career, he has held significant positions, including Assistant Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on radio-frequency electronics, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, where he worked on computational nanoelectronics. His current research interests include understanding nanoscale transistors and circuits for future technologies, employing state-of-the-art modeling and simulation techniques such as semi-classical Boltzmann transport equations and fully quantum-mechanical non-equilibrium Green’s function approaches. He is actively engaged in exploring CMOS device technologies, ferroelectrics, and spintronic devices targeted for quantum computing, collaborating with local experimentalists and academic and industrial partners across North America and Europe.

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