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Joseph Kahn
Professor of Electrical Engineering
BioJoseph M. Kahn is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research addresses communication and imaging through optical fibers, including modulation, detection, signal processing and spatial multiplexing. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 and 1986. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. He was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at U.C. Berkeley from 1990-2003. In 2000, he co-founded StrataLight Communications, which was acquired by Opnext, Inc. in 2009. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991 and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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Thomas Kailath
Hitachi America Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus
BioThomas Kailath obtained a B.E.(Telecom) degree from the College of Engineering in Pune, India, in !956 and M.S. (1959) and Sc.D. (1961) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After a year at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, he joined Stanford University in 1963 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, was promoted to Professor in 1968, and named to the Hitachi America Chair in 1988. He assumed Emeritus status in June 2001. His research has spanned a large number of engineering and mathematical disciplines, and he has mentored over a hundred doctoral and postdoctoral students. Their joint efforts have led to over 300 journal papers, several of which have received outstanding paper prizes; they have also led to a dozen patents and to several books and monographs. He has also co-founded and served as a director of several private and public high-technology companies. and has been
He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World and the Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering. In 2006, he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Other major honors include several IEEE medals and prizes, including the 2007 Medal of Honor in 2007, Guggenheim and Churchill Fellowships, and honorary degrees from universities in Sweden, Scotland, Spain and France. -
Theodore Kamins
Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering
Researcher, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)BioTed received his degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor, where he worked with epitaxial and polycrystalline silicon before moving to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where he worked on numerous semiconductor material and device topics. Before moving to Stanford, he was a Principal Scientist at Hewlett-Packard in the Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, where he conducted research on advanced nanostructured electronic and sensing materials and devices.
Ted is co-author with R. S. Muller of the textbook "Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits" and is author of the book "Polycrystalline Silicon for Integrated Circuits and Displays." He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Stanford University and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. -
Andrei Kanavalau
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2020
Masters Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Winter 2023BioAndrei is a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford. His research focuses on augmenting control algorithms with machine learning while preserving safety and stability guarantees.
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Zerina Kapetanovic
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Geophysics
BioZerina Kapetanovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University working in the area of low-power wireless communication, sensing, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Prior to starting at Stanford, Kapetanovic was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in the Networking Research Group and Research for Industry Group.
Kapetanovic's research has been recognized by the Yang Research Award, the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Washington, and is a Terman Faculty Fellow. She also received the Microsoft Research Distinguished Dissertation Grant and was selected to attend the 2020 UC Berkeley Rising Stars in EECS Workshop. Kapetanovic completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2022. -
Leonid Kazovsky
Professor (Research) of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
BioProfessor Kazovsky and his research group are investigating green energy-efficient networks. The focus of their research is on access and in-building networks and on hybrid optical / wireless networks. Prof. Kazovsky's research group is also conducting research on next-generation Internet architectures and novel zero-energy photonic components.
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Ali Keshavarzi
Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering
BioAli Keshavarzi, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Ali is involved in scholarly research and is an advisor to Stanford SystemX IoE Research (IoE = Internet of Everything). Currently Ali is a DARPA program manager in Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) defining impactful research frontiers in microelectronics. Ali is working on Software Defined Hardware (SDH) Program and on Foundation Required for Novel Compute (FRANC) Program while defining new concepts to push research forward on the technology, computing architecture, and data-centric application domains. Before his current role at DARPA, Ali was working with DARPA as an advisor and subject matter expert on the Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI). Ali is a member of DARPA MTO Investor Working Board (IWB) and the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI). Ali is a principal and the founder of Leading Edge Research LLC, Los Altos, CA.
Ali is a technology visionary and a leader who has been at the forefront of technology innovation with a track record of delivering critical process technologies, devices, circuits, SoCs, and modules to the semiconductor industry. Ali was the Vice President of R&D and a Fellow at Cypress Semiconductor and held various positions at Intel, TSMC, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES in a variety of technical and leadership roles over 25 years. Ali was a visiting research professor at UC Berkeley from 2017 to 2018.
Ali is an IEEE Fellow. He has over 60 U.S. patents, over 70 peer reviewed papers, has received best-paper awards and the best-panel award at ISSCC, most paper citation awards from DAC and IEDM. He has served in TPC of IEDM and ISSCC and has been the general chair of ISLPED. He received the prestigious Intel Achievement Award (IAA). Ali was awarded a distinguished Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) of Purdue University.
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Asir Intisar Khan
Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
Affiliate, Program-Pop, E.BioAsir Intisar Khan is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin. He is also a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Electrical Engineering, Stanford with Prof. Eric Pop. Asir received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University, supervised by Prof. Eric Pop, and collaborated very closely with Profs. H.-S. Philip Wong, Kenneth Goodson, and Krishna Saraswat.
His research effort and vision encompass exploring novel materials and their functionalities to enable energy-efficient memory, computing devices, and interconnects for 3D heterogeneous integration. His research has enabled the lowest-to-date switching current density in phase-change memory technology and has been featured in Forbes Magazine and IEEE Spectrum. He received the Best Student Paper award at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Technology Symposium and several Best Student Presentation Awards: 2022 MRS Fall Meeting, 2023 AVS Symposium Electronic Materials and Photonics Division, and 2023 SRC TECHCON. He has held Research Intern positions at TSMC and IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Asir is a recipient of the 2023 AVS Russell & Sigurd Varian Award, the 2022 IEEE EDS Ph.D. Student Fellowship and 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Graduate Student Award, and Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
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