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 500 journal papers
including in Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters
and Electron Device Letters. A fellow of the American Physical Society and the
IEEE, his research is recognized by awards such as the 2012 ISCS young
scientist award, the 2014 MBE young scientist award, the 2024 Art Gossard MBE
innovator award, 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 ME Commons NITRIDER,
SRC/DARPA JUMP centers, DOE EFRC, NSF DMREF, and NSF EFRI. His research work
has resulted in several patents
and two spinoff companies (Soctera,
Gallox).
His teaching awards include the 2024 Michael Tien award at Cornell. His
recorded lectures
have been viewed more than 250,000 times, and his textbook Quantum
Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices has been adopted
by several universities for undergraduate and graduate courses.