Kaustav Banerjee

Kaustav Banerjee is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California%2c_Santa_Barbara/G7UvBWlK">University of California, Santa Barbara</a>. He obtained Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California. He was named <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers/UddC4pUW">Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</a> (IEEE) in 2012 "for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects." One of Banerjee's notable doctoral student is <a href="/facts/Deblina_Sarkar/kNVUsmeG">Deblina Sarkar</a>, who later joined the faculty of <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>. The journal <a href="/facts/Nature_Nanotechnology/KPLcubYY">Nature Nanotechnology</a> recognised their paper on <a href="/facts/Tunnel_field-effect_transistor/nV2wBq6M">tunnel field-effect transistor</a> (TFET)-based <a href="/facts/Biosensor/MaUAS0gD">biosensor</a> published in <a href="/facts/Applied_Physics_Letters/oIQvp1Wg">Applied Physics Letters</a> in as one of the highlight papers in 2012.
Banerjee is an elected fellow of the <a href="/facts/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science/zfWYugCg">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>, <a href="/facts/American_Physical_Society/DCkkU6dD">American Physical Society</a>, <a href="/facts/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers/UddC4pUW">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</a>, and <a href="/facts/Japan_Society_for_the_Promotion_of_Science/NsCmhaJC">Japan Society for the Promotion of Science</a>. He has received the <a href="/facts/IEEE_Kiyo_Tomiyasu_Award/RXJCLGPM">IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award</a>, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, and Humboldt Prize.

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Kaustav Banerjee