{"678725":{"#nid":"678725","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Datta Receives University Research Award for Excellence in Semiconductor Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/suman-datta\u0022\u003ESuman Datta\u003C\/a\u003E has received the 2024 University Research Award for Technology from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). He was presented the award at the SIA Awards Dinner on Nov. 21, 2024, in San Jose, Calif.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry by university faculty. Since being established in 1995, only \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.src.org\/award\/university-researcher\/\u0022\u003E50 faculty members\u003C\/a\u003E from top universities around the U.S. have won the award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Professors Suman Datta and Michael Flynn join an illustrious group of past award winners who have made significant contributions to the semiconductor industry,\u201d SRC President and CEO Todd Younkin said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.semiconductors.org\/professors-from-georgia-tech-and-university-of-michigan-to-be-honored-for-excellence-in-semiconductor-research\/\u0022\u003Ein a press release.\u003C\/a\u003E \u201cTheir groundbreaking research and its translation into the commercial domain continue to drive innovation and excellence in our field.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDatta, who is the Joseph M. Pettit Chair of Advanced Computing in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar, is just the second Georgia Tech faculty member to win the award. Former ECE professor Jim Meindl won the award in 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s renowned for the design, fabrication, characterization, and compact modeling of nanoelectronic devices, as well as their applications in circuits for next-generation, energy-efficient, and high-performance computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince coming to ECE in the Fall of 2022, Datta, who also has a joint appointment with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Materials Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, has directed the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dattalab.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESemiconductor Technology Advanced Research (STAR) Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E. The STAR research group focuses on novel semiconductor devices that enable new compute models such as in-memory compute, brain-inspired compute, and cryogenic compute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDatta\u2019s research is primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Department of Energy, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and semiconductor companies like Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics, Applied Materials, EMD Performance Materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDatta had established himself as a recognized leader in semiconductor innovation, with over 20 years of experience before joining ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom 1999-2007, he was in the Advanced Transistor Group at Intel Corporation, where he led the research and development efforts for several generations of high-performance logic transistors such as high-k\/metal gate, Tri-gate, and strained channel complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe then joined academia at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), where he was a professor of electrical engineering until 2015. His group at PSU pioneered advances in compound semiconductor-based quantum-well field effect transistors and tunneling field effect transistors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDatta continued to be at the forefront of semiconductor innovation during his time as the Stinson Endowed Chair Professor of Nanotechnology in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame from 2015-2022. There, he was the director of several multi-university research centers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMost notably, one of those centers, the Extremely Energy Efficient Collective Electronics (EXCEL), sponsored by NSF, explored an alternate computing hardware that leverages continuous-time dynamics of emerging devices to execute optimization, learning, and inference tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, he led the ASCENT project (Applications and Systems-driven Center for Energy-Efficient integrated Nano Technologies) funded by SRC\u2019s Joint University Microelectronics Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis work has resulted in over 475 journal and refereed conference papers and more than 187 issued patents related to semiconductor devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s received several other notable distinctions for his research, including being named a Fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDatta received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe prestigious award, given by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and Semiconductor Industry Association, recognizes lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry by university faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The prestigious award, given by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and Semiconductor Industry Association, recognizes lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry by university faculty."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-12-02 18:21:28","changed_gmt":"2024-12-06 13:57:20","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675757":{"id":"675757","type":"image","title":"241121_SIA_selection_011.jpg","body":null,"created":"1733163708","gmt_created":"2024-12-02 18:21:48","changed":"1733163708","gmt_changed":"2024-12-02 18:21:48","alt":"Suman Datta at SIA Awards Dinner","file":{"fid":"259420","name":"241121_SIA_selection_011.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/12\/02\/241121_SIA_selection_011.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/12\/02\/241121_SIA_selection_011.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1637339,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/12\/02\/241121_SIA_selection_011.jpg?itok=8oIYZ5Su"}}},"media_ids":["675757"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166954","name":"SRC"},{"id":"167609","name":"semiconductor"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}