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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.  Jena’s 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.

 

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