Dr. Pinaki Mazumder

Biography

Pinaki Mazumder received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since joining the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Michigan, he has taught for over 25 years. His professional journey includes six years in industrial R&D laboratories and a sabbatical spent at institutions such as the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and the NTT Central Research Laboratory in Japan. He has served as a lead Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Emerging Technologies Program, CISE Directorate, where he led programs in Quantum, Molecular, and High Performance Simulation. Professor Mazumder's research encompasses CMOS VLSI design, semiconductor memory systems, circuit design, and emerging technologies such as quantum MOS, spintronics, and spoof plasmonics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, recognized in 1999, and a Fellow of the AAAS, honored in 2007, for his distinguished contributions to VLSI. His inventions in testable DRAM circuits and accelerated testing procedures have had widespread applications in memory systems. Professor Mazumder is known for his pioneering work in bio-inspired VLSI layout synthesis and self-healing VLSI design. Over the past two decades, he has collaborated with various leading researchers, advancing the field significantly through projects such as the development of the Quantum SPICE simulator.

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