Kaustav Banerjee is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Nanoelectronics Research Laboratory at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara.[1][2] He obtained Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California.[2] He was namedFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[3] "for contributions to modeling and design of nanoscale integrated circuit interconnects." One of Banerjee's notable doctoral student isDeblina Sarkar, who later joined the faculty ofMassachusetts Institute of Technology. The journalNature Nanotechnology recognised their paper ontunnel field-effect transistor (TFET)-basedbiosensor published inApplied Physics Letters[4] in as one of the highlight papers in 2012.[5]
Banerjee is an elected fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science,American Physical Society,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, andJapan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has received theIEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, and Humboldt Prize.[6]
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