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Professor Kapadia joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering in July 2014. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2008, and his Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. During his time at Berkeley, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and won the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding research. Professor Kapadia has won several awards including the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2016, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2021, and the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award in 2020. His research interests lie at the intersection of material science and electrical engineering, focusing specifically on next-generation electronic and photonic devices, as well as the material growth techniques necessary for fabricating these devices. He has authored numerous journal articles on electronic devices, photonic devices, and nanomaterials, and holds multiple patents. Notably, he has developed new techniques for growing and integrating compound semiconductors on arbitrary substrates.
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