Krishna C. Saraswat

Demonstrating visionary leadership for more than 30 years, Dr. Krishna Saraswat's influence extends from fundamental research of silicon oxidation to system level studies of wiring delays and chip performance. He has made fundamental contributions to device structures, new materials and process technology of silicon devices and integrated circuits. These contributions have helped in continued scaling of device dimensions and improvement in the performance of integrated circuits. An IEEE Fellow and member of the Electrochemical and the Materials Research Societies, Dr. Saraswat has received the Electrochemical Society's Thomas D. Callinan Award and two gold medals for undergraduate excellence from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 technical papers. Dr. Saraswat has been a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in Stanford, California since 1983. He also holds the Rickey/Nielsen Professorship of Engineering at Stanford and is the associate director of the National Science Foundation / Semiconductor Research Corporation Engineering Research Center there for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing.