UC REGENTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Research Group
Dr. Ana Claudia Arias is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. Prior to that, she received her master's and bachelor's degrees in physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil in 1997 and 1995, respectively.
Dr. Arias joined the University of California, Berkeley in January of 2011. Before that she was manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a Member of Research Staff at PARC, a Xerox Company. She went to PARC, in 2003, from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group. Her research focuses on the use of electronic materials processed from solution in flexible electronic systems. Dr. Arias uses printing techniques to fabricate flexible large area electronic devices and sensors.
Dr. Archana Raja is a Staff Scientist in the Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Her research focuses on how energy, charge and information can be manipulated in nanoscale quantum materials and their heterostructures. Using multimodal characterization techniques, she bridges fundamental understanding of optoelectronic phenomena from the application-scale to the atom-scale. She is the recipient of the Berkeley Lab Director's Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, Kavli ENSI Heising-Simons Junior Fellowship, Blanche R. and David Kasindorf Fellowship in Physical Chemistry at Columbia University and the Institute Silver Medal at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.
Dr. Ashish Penumatcha is a Device Engineer working on beyond-CMOS logic and memory technologies at Intel. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India, in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was a recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award in 2014.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Senior Scientist
- Senior Scientist at LBNL
Dr. Bruno LaFontaine is a Senior Scientist at LBNL and Director of the Center for X-Ray Optics. During his career, which spans over 30 years, he has been involved in pioneering technology development work on Extreme Ultraviolet (or EUV) lithography, as well as research in a number of areas related to the application of high-power lasers.
After receiving his Ph.D. in plasma physics from INRS near Montreal in Canada, he started his career as a postdoc at Bell Labs, then as a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore Lab, before accepting a position as professor of physics at INRS.
In 2000, he returned to the US to join the semiconductor industry, first at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he was a fellow before moving to Cymer and then ASML. He is a fellow of SPIE and is an inventor of over 40 US and international patents, as well as being an author of more than 130 papers.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Materials Science at the University
Dr. Daryl C. Chrzan is a Professor of Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a joint appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is a member of the Electronic Materials Program. He received his Ph. D. in Condensed Matter Theory from Physics Department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Immediately thereafter, he joined the Computational Materials Science Group at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. In 1995, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California. He has received an NSF CAREER award, and more recently, was awarded a Miller Research Professorship.
Professor Chrzan specializes in Computational Materials Science. His research interests include the mechanical properties of metals and metallic compounds, the structure of extended defects in solids, and the growth of nanostructures.
Dr. Dennis H.C. Lin received the B.S.E.E. from National Taiwan University in 1999 and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2000 and 2008, respectively. From 2001 to 2003, he was with Bell-Labs & Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, New Jersey developing the ultra-long-haul soliton optical communication systems.
Since 2009, he has been engaged in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor gate stack/device research and development for advanced logic applications. He is currently a Principal Scientist in Compute Memory Technologies at IMEC Belgium.
Job Titles:
- Eli / Yablonovitch / Co - Director
- Senior Staff Scientist
- Senior Staff Scientist at the Advanced Light Source
Dr. Eli Rotenberg is a senior staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California, where he serves as deputy of the Scientific Support Group. Dr. Rotenberg received his B.S. in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) in 1987, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
He is currently the director of LBNL's Microscopic and Electronic Structure Observatory (MAESTRO), a synchrotron beamline facility dedicated to angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements at the nanoscale. His research interests are the relationship between electronic structure and morphology, symmetry, and dimensionality, and the role of many-body interactions on the ground states of low dimensional materials such as graphene, metal and oxide surfaces.
Dr. Rotenberg received the 2001 Peter Mark Award from the American Vacuum Society, the 2009 Kai Siegbahn Award, and the 2010 Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics Prize. Dr. Rotenberg is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Physics at the University of California
Dr. Feng Wang is a professor of physics at the university of California, Berkeley. He received a B.A. from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 1999 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004. From 2005-2007, he has been a Miller Fellow with Miller Institute for Basic Science at Berkeley. He joined the physics faculty in fall, 2007.
His research interests have been in light-matter interaction in condensed matter physics, with an emphasis on novel physical phenomena emerging in nanoscale structures and at surfaces/interfaces. When electrons and phonons are confined in nanometer scale or at surface/interfaces, they respond differently to external stimuli. He investigates the unique nature and dynamics of such excited states using advanced laser spectroscopy techniques. His group's laser spectroscopy has sensitivity down to individual nanostructures, together with time resolution of femtoseconds and spectral coverage extending from far-infrared, visible to UV.
He has been awarded the Sloan Fellowship, Outstanding Young Researcher Award of Overseas Chinese Physics Association, International Union of pure and Applied Physicists (IUPAP) C10 Young Scientist Prize, Hellman Family Faculty Award, Packard Fellowship, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Dr. Iuliana P. Radu joined TSMC's Corporate Research in October 2021 where she leads activities in Exploratory Materials and Devices. Prior to joining TSMC, Iuliana was with imec in Belgium where she founded the Quantum Computing and the Beyond CMOS programs in 2017 and 2013 respectively. Prior to establishing the Beyond CMOS program at imec in 2013, she was a Marie Curie and FWO fellow at KU Leuven and imec. Iuliana holds a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT. She has been an author on over 200 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Her research interests range from transistors with new channels materials use of ferroelectrics, cryo-CMOS and enabling quantum computing.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Dr. Jeffrey Bokor is the Paul R. Gray Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, with a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Bokor received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1976 and 1980, respectively. From 1980 to 1993, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he did research on a variety of topics in laser science, advanced lithography for integrated circuits, as well as semiconductor physics and technology, and held several management positions.
Dr. Bokor joined the Berkeley faculty in 1993 and served in a number of administrative positions including Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering, and Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. His current research activities include nanomagnetics/spintronics, graphene electronics, nanophotonics, and nano-electromechanical systems. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and OSA.
Dr. Joel W. Ager III is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Materials and Chemical Sciences Divisions of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley. He is a Principal Investigator in the Electronic Materials Program and the Program Lead for the Liquid Sunshine Alliance (LiSA) at LBNL. He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 with an A.B in Chemistry and from the University of Colorado in 1986 with a PhD in Chemical Physics. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1989. His research interests include the discovery of new photoelectrochemical and electrochemical catalysts for solar to chemical energy conversion, fundamental electronic and transport properties of semiconducting materials, and the development of new types of transparent conductors. Professor Ager is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and has published over 400 papers in refereed journals. His work is highly cited, with over 48,000 citations and an h-index of 113 (Google Scholar).
Dr. Kristin Persson is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She is also the Director and founder of the Materials Project (materialsproject.org) which is a world-leading resource for materials data and design. She has received the DOE Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award twice, the TMS Cyril Stanley Smith Award, the TMS Faculty Early Career Award, the Falling Walls Science and Innovation Management Award, the LBNL Director's award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and she is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, an MRS Fellow, a AAAS Fellow and an APS Fellow. She holds several patents in the clean energy space and has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Charles a. Desoer Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Laura Waller is the Charles A. Desoer Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, leading the Computational Imaging Lab. She also has affiliations in Bioengineering and Applied Sciences & Technology. From 2016 to 2020 Dr. Waller held the UC Berkeley Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship.
Dr. Waller was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of physics at Princeton University from 2010-2012 and received B.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004, 2005 and 2010, respectively. She is a Moore Foundation Data-Driven Investigator, Bakar fellow, Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring awardee, NSF CAREER awardee, Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, SPIE Early Career Achievement Awardee, Optica Adolph Lomb Medal recipient, and a Packard Fellow.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Executive Director of the Berkeley Emerging Technology Research
Dr. Michael H. Bartl is the executive director of the Berkeley Emerging Technology Research (BETR) Center. He also serves as deputy director of the MUSE Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Utah, where he is a research professor. As executive director of the BETR Center, Dr. Bartl oversees all center activities, provides leadership and strategic direction, leads the coordination of research efforts, and manages center staff.
Before moving to Berkeley, Dr. Bartl was a tenured professor in chemistry at the University of Utah, and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He co-founded Navillum Nanotechnologies, a start-up company focused on fabrication of nanostructured semiconductors. Dr. Bartl served as deputy editor for Scripta Materialia and authored more than 70 publications about his research activities in functional nanostructured materials for energy and information technology applications.
A native of Austria, Dr. Bartl earned his doctorate degree in materials/inorganic chemistry from Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria, before conducting postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the recipient of a "DuPont Young Professorship", and was named a "Brilliant 10" researcher by Popular Science magazine and a Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Dr. Milan D. Pešić received a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and is currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and Director of Technology Development at Applied Materials Inc. He is leading a device and reliability teams and overseeing device and cell physics and research activities in the field of advanced logic, (emerging) (non)volatile memories and devices. Previously, he was with MDLSoft Inc., Santa Clara, USA, Ferroelectric Memory Company, Dresden, and NaMLab, Dresden. Up to now, he has given ten invited talks and (co)authored over 70 technical papers, four book chapters, and filed over 30 patents.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Eli / Yablonovitch / Co - Director
- Fellow of IEEE
- Nortel Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Ming C. Wu is Nortel Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) at UC Berkeley. Dr. Wu received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 1986 and 1988, respectively. He was Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (1988-1992) and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (1992-2004). He has been a faculty member at Berkeley since 2004.
Dr. Wu is Fellow of IEEE and Optical Society (OSA), and a Packard Foundation Fellow (1992 - 1997). He was a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors from 2013 to 2016. His work has been recognized by the 2016 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the 2007 Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award, the 2017 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society (OSA), and the 2020 Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award from IEEE Electron Device Society.
Dr. Wu is Fellow of IEEE and Optical Society (OSA), and was a Packard Foundation Fellow (1992-1997). He was a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors (2013-2016). His work has been recognized by the 2016 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the 2007 Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award, the 2017 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society (OSA), and the 2020 Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award from IEEE Electron Device Society.
Job Titles:
- Principal Researcher at SAIT
Dr. Minsu Seol is a Principal Researcher at SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology), Samsung Electronics. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH in 2014, and then joined SAIT. His current research interests include growth and integration of 2D materials for their electronic applications.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Co - Director
Dr. Sophia Shao is an Assistant Professor and an SK Hynix Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Previously, she was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research.
Dr. Shao received her Ph.D. degree in 2016 and S.M. degree in 2014 from Harvard University. Her research interests are in the area of computer architecture, with a special focus on specialized accelerator, heterogeneous architecture, and agile VLSI design methodology.
Dr. Shao's work has been awarded the Best Paper Award at DAC 2021, the Best Paper Award at JSSC 2020, a Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019, Top Picks in Computer Architecture (2014), and Honorable Mentions (2019*2). Her Ph.D. dissertation was nominated by Harvard for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dr. Shao is an SK Hynix Faculty Fellow and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, the 2022 IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award, a Google Faculty Rising Stars Award in Systems Research, a Facebook Research Award, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant, and the inaugural Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili Award.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Vladimir Stojanović is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2005, and the Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. He was also with Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, CA, from 2001 through 2004 and with MIT as Associate Professor from 2005 to 2013.
Research interests of Dr. Stojanović include design, modeling and optimization of integrated systems, from CMOS-based VLSI blocks and interfaces to system design with emerging devices like NEM relays and silicon-photonics. He is also interested in design and implementation of energy-efficient electrical and optical networks, and digital communication techniques in high-speed interfaces and high-speed mixed-signal IC design.
Dr. Stojanović received the IBM Faculty Partnership Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the ICCAD William J. McCalla, the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, and the ISSCC Jack Raper best paper award. He was an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer for the 2012-2013 term.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science
Dr. Zak Al Balushi is an assistant professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, co-Director of the Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research (BETR) Center and a faculty scientist in the Materials Science Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Zakaria received his B.S. (2011), M.S. (2012) in Engineering Science and his Ph.D. (2017) in Materials Science and Engineering all from The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently serving on the editorial board of Communications Materials, an elected executive committee member for the American Association for Crystal Growth and recently named "Four rising stars who are reshaping nanoscience" by Nature [Nature 608, S12-S13 (2022)]. He is also a SK Hynix Faculty Fellow, Society of Hellman Fellow, a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in Quantum Materials and a recipient of the NSF CAREER and Micron Corporation Early Career Awards in 2022.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Co - Director
Dr. Zakaria Al Balushi is SK Hynix Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, and Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 and a B.S./M.S. degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics in 2012, both from Penn State.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he was a Resnick Prize Postdoc Fellow in Applied Physics and Materials Science at California Institute of Technology. Dr. Al Balushi's research is focused on electronic materials synthesis of compound semiconductor thin films and nanostructures using chemical vapor deposition. His group is particularly interested in creating novel scalable crystal growth and integration schemes of emerging materials for logic, optoelectronic and power devices.
Prof. Jie Yao obtained his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University after that. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in 2013. His research interests are mainly focused on optical materials and nanophotonics, including metamaterials, plasmonics and photonic crystals. He is also developing novel 2D materials with ferroic responses for electronic and spintronic applications. Prof. Yao has won the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation and Early Career award from SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics. He is also a Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow and a recipient of the Hellman Fellowship from the Hellman Foundation.
Professor Steven G. Louie is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He received his physics Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1976. After having worked at the IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Labs, and University of Pennsylvania, he joined the UC Berkeley physics faculty in 1980.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Materials Research Society (MRS). He is a recipient of the APS Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, APS Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics, MRS Materials Theory Award, and Foresight Institute's Feynman Prize, among others.
Louie's research is in condensed matter physics and nanoscience, with over 700 publications. He is known for his pioneering development of the ab initio GW method and for his studies of novel bulk and reduced-dimensional systems.
Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu is the Dean of the College of Engineering and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. Previously, she served as Chair of the EECS Department, the COE Associate Dean for Research, and Faculty Director of the Marvell Nanolab. She was also Sr. Director of Engineering in the Advanced Technology Group of Synopsys, Inc. (2004-2006).
She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Member of Research Staff in 1992, to research and develop high-performance thin-film transistor technologies for flat-panel display applications. In 1996 she joined the faculty at UC Berkeley. Her research activities are presently in advanced materials, fabrication processes and devices for energy-efficient electronics. She has authored or co-authored more than 550 publications and holds more than 95 patents.
Dr. Liu's awards include the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award for development of the FinFET, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award, and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award. Dr. Liu is a fellow of the IEEE, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. She serves on the Board of Directors for Intel Corporation and on the Board of Directors for MaxLinear, Inc.