Dr. Savannah Eisner

Biography

Savannah Eisner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University in 2017 and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2020 and 2023, respectively. Her dissertation research focused on the use of uncooled GaN transistors for extreme environment space applications. Prior to her current position, she served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Extreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Savannah is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and a Future Technical Leaders Fellow at the NSF engineering research center for power optimization in electro-thermal systems. She is also a recipient of the IEEE Aerospace Paper Award for her work on GaN microelectronics for future Venus surface missions. Her research interests include the design of (ultra)wide-bandgap micro/nanoelectronic solid-state logic, sensors, and MEMS, with a focus on harnessing emerging materials to meet the growing demand for reliable micro/nanoelectronic sensor systems. Her work pushes the operational limits of conventional silicon electronics and investigates innovative device architectures and systems that have critical applications in robotic planetary exploration, environmental monitoring, hypersonic aircraft, and quantum computing.

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