Chenming Hu is Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC and founder of Celestry Design Technologies. He is best known for developing the revolutionary 3D transistor FinFET that powers semiconductor chips beyond 20nm. He also led the development of BSIM— the industry standard transistor model that is used in designing most of the integrated circuits in the world. He is a member of the US Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Science, and Academia Sinica. His honors include the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award, IEEE Andrew Grove Award and Solid Circuits Award as well as Nishizawa Medal, and UC Berkeley's highest honor for teaching— the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Sourabh Khandelwal is currently Associate Professor at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Previously, they were a Postdoctoral Researcher in the BSIM Group, University of California, Berkeley. Sourabh received his PhD degree from Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2013 and Masters’ degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2007. From 2007 – 2010 he worked as a Research Engineer at IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Centre, developing compact models for RF SOI devices. He holds a patent and has authored several research papers in the area of device modeling and characterization. His PhD work on GaN compact model is under consideration for industry standardization by the Compact Model Coalition.
Yogesh Singh Chauhan is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research interests include the physics, characterization, and modeling of nanoscale semiconductor devices, and RF circuit design. He is the developer of several industry standard models, including the BSIM-BULK (BSIM6), BSIM-IMG, BSIM-CMG and ASM-HEMT models.
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Juan Pablo Duarte Sepúlveda is currently working toward his PhD. degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his BS (2010) and MS (2012) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He held a position as a lecturer at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, in 2012. He has authored many papers in nanoscale semiconductor device modeling and characterization. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD) for the paper “Unified FinFET Compact Model: Modelling Trapezoidal Triple-Gate FinFETs”.
Pragya Kushwaha is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Chenming Hu in the BSIM Device Modeling Group at University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2017. She has authored several national and international research papers in the area of semiconductor device modeling and characterization. During her PhD, she has developed a complete RF compact model for FDSOI transistors under the frame work of industry standard BSIM-IMG compact model. Her current research interests include modeling, simulation, and characterization of advanced semiconductor devices such as nanowires, NCFETs, PD/FDSOIs, FinFETs, tunnel FETs, high-voltage FETs, and bulk MOSFETs.
Harshit Agarwal received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2017. He is currently working as center manager and post-doc fellow at Berkeley Device Modeling Centre, BSIM group, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. He has been involved in the development of multi-gate and bulk MOSFET models. He is also involved in the modeling and characterization of advanced steep sub-threshold slope devices like negative capacitance FETs, tunnel FET etc. He has authored several papers in the field of semiconductor device modeling, simulation and characterization.
