M. Jagadesh Kumar (M’95-SM’99) was born in Mamidala, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

From 1991 to 1994, he performed postdoctoral research in modeling and processing of high-speed bipolar transistors with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. While with the University of Waterloo, he also did research on amorphous silicon TFTs. From July 1994 to December 1995, he was initially with the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, where he became an Associate Professor in July 1997 and a Full Professor in January 2005. His research interests are on Nanoelectronic devices, modeling and simulation for nanoscale applications, integrated-circuit technology, and power semiconductor devices. He has published extensively in the above areas with three book chapters and more than 125 publications in refereed journals and conferences. His teaching has often been rated as outstanding by the Faculty Appraisal Committee, IIT Delhi.

Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of (i) Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and (ii) the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India. He was a recipient of the 29th IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal for distinguished contribution in the field of semiconductor device design and modeling. He was also the first recipient of ISA-VSI TechnoMentor Award given by the India Semiconductor Association to recognize a distinguished Indian academician and researcher for playing a significant role as a mentor and researcher. He is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES. He is also on the editorial board of Journal of Computational Electronics; Recent Patents on Nanotechnology; Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering; Journal of Low Power Electronics; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; and IETE Journal of Research as a subject area Honorary Editor for Electronic Devices and Components. He has reviewed extensively for different journals including IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY, IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, Electronics Letters, and Solid-state Electronics.

Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and also on the Editorial Board of IETE Journal of Research as a subject area Honorary Editor for Electronic Devices and Components. He has reviewed extensively for different journals including IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, IEEE Trans. on Device and Materials Reliability and IEEE Electron Device Letters. He was Chairman, Fellowship Committee, The Sixteenth International Conference on VLSI Design, January 4-8, 2003, New Delhi, India. He was Chairman of the Technical Committee for High Frequency Devices, International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices, December 13-17, 2005, New Delhi, India.