Bio Sketch
Debdeep
Jena is the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is in the departments of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering,
and is a field member in the department of Applied and Engineering
Physics. He joined Cornell in 2015 from
the faculty at Notre Dame where he was since August 2003, shortly after earning
the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His
teaching and research are in the quantum physics of semiconductors and
electronic and photonic devices based on quantized semiconductor structures (e.g. Nitrides, Oxides, 2D Materials), and their heterostructures
with superconductors, ferroelectrics and magnets. His research group develops energy-efficient
transistors, light-emitting diodes and lasers, RF and power electronics, and
quantum computation and communication devices.
His research is driven by the goal to enable orders of magnitude
increase in the energy efficiency and speed for computation, memory,
communications, lighting, and electrical energy management ranging from the
chip to the grid.
His
group's research has been published in more than 400 journal papers
including in Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters
and Electron Device Letters. He has been a Clarivate highly cited researcher
for several years, and is a fellow of the American
Physical Society. His research is recognized by awards such as the ISCS young
scientist award in 2012 and the MBE young scientist award in 2014, and awards
from the industry such as the IBM faculty award in 2012, and the Intel
Outstanding Research award in 2020. He
has served in leadership roles in several national centers such as the
SRC/DARPA JUMP centers, DOE EFRC, NSF DMREF, and NSF EFRI. His research work has resulted in several patents
and a spinoff company. His teaching is recognized by awards, and his
textbook
Quantum Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices has been adopted
by several universities for undergraduate and graduate courses.