of Prof. Shenai

Krishna Shenai received a B.Tech. in electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1979, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1981, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986.
Dr. Shenai was a senior staff engineer at Intel Corporation from 1991 to 1993, and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1993 to 1995. He joined the department as an associate professor in 1995.
His research interests are solid-state and microelectronics, power electronics, and semiconductor manufacturing.

University Service/Administrative Assignments

Departmental Committees

• Chairman, Electronics Instructions Lab Committee (1996-present)
• Member, Colloqium & Research Committee (1996-present)
• Promotion and Tenure Committee
• Member, EE Curriculum Sub-Committee (1996-present)
• Member, Graduate Committee, EECS Department, 1995-1996.
• Member, Electronics Instruction Lab Committee, 1995-1996.

College Committees

• Member, College of Engineering Machine Shop Committee (1997-present)
• Member, College of Engineering Environmental Engineering Program (1997-present)

University Committees

» UW - Madison

• Undergraduate Scholarship Committee, ECE Department, 1993-1994.
• WCAM Advisory Committee, College of Engineering, 1993-1994.
• WCAM Advisory Committee, College of Engineering, 1994-1995.
• Salary Committee, ECE Department, 1994-1995.

» UIC

• Member, Graduate Faculty, UIC Graduate School, 1995-Present.

Conference Committees

• Organizer and Co-Chairman, First Workshop on Custom Design of Application-Specific Power Seminconductor Devices and Circuits, Madison, WI, April 13-14, 1994.
• Member, Process/Device Subcommittee, IEEE Int. Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), San Jose, CA, April 11-14, 1994.
• Organizer and Co-Chairman, Second Int. IEEE/SPIE Conf. Emerging Optoelectronics Technologies (CEOT), Bangalore, India, July 18-21, 1994.
• Vice Chairman, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technologies (BCTM), Minneapolis, MN, October, 1994.
• Chairman, Poster Sessions, 1994 IEEE Int. Integrated Reliability Workshop, Lake Tahoe, CA, October 16-19, 1994.
• Member, International Steering Committee, 1995 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), Yokohama, Japan, April 3-7, 1995.
• Member, International Steering Committee, International IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS'95), Singapore, February 21-24, 1995.
• Vice Chairman, Process/Device Subcommittee, 1995 IEEE Int. Reliability Physics, Symposium (IRPS), Las Vegas, NV, April 3-6, 1995.
• Chairman, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technologies (BCTM), Minneapolis, MN, October 1995.
• Chairman, Finance Committee, International IEEE Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Electrical Systems, New Delhi, India, January 1996.
• General Chairman, IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technologies (BCTM), Minneapolis, MN, October 1996.
• Member, Power Device SubCommittee, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conf. and Exposition (APEC), February 23-27, 1997, Atlanta, GA.
• Chairman, Exhibitions and Vendor Show, IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technologies (BCTM), Minneapolis, MN, October 1997.
• Vice Chairman, 21st Int. Conf. Microelectronics, Nis, Yugoslavia, September 15-17, 1997.
• Organizer and Founding Co-Chairman, IEEE Int. Workshop on Integrated Power Packaging (IWIPP), Chicago, IL, April 1998.

Professional Committee

• Member, International Steering Committee, International Electron Devices and Materials Symposium (IEDMS), Tainan, Taiwan, December 1998.
• Member, Standards Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society , 1997-present.
• Member, Packaging Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) - IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) -- IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT) Society -- Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA), 1997 - present.
• Member, Model Validation Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) -IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), 1996-present.
• Member, Power Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits Technical Committee, IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS), 1997-present.
• Member, Program Committee, ECS Symposium on ULSI Process Integration, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 17-22, 1998.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PELS), Fukuoka, Japan, May 17-22, 1998.

Other significant activities

» UW - Madison

I have made significant contributions to university extension and outreach programs as follows: (1) I was one of the five instructors for the short course on power electronics which was attended by over 50 people from industries. This effort produced substantial revenue for the Engineering Professional Development program and the WEMPEC. I also obtained excellent evaluations for my teaching. (2) I successfully initiated, co-organized and co-chaired the First Workshop on Application-Specific Power Semiconductor Devices and Circuits held in Madison, WI on April 13-14, 1994. This Workshop was attended by over 100 people from some 40 industries and several universities. This effort has brought in some new WEMPEC sponsors and new research thrust areas. (3) I visited the Technical University of Dresden, Germany and helped to recruit 8 exchange students to our engineering programs and I am currently supervising 3 students on diploma projects.

In February 1995, I was invited by MUCIA to visit the Technical Institutes at Surabaya and Bandung, Indonesia to deliver seminars on "VLSI Technologies" and "Power Semiconductor Devices." I also initiated potential new exchange programs.

In July 1995, I was invited to present a series of seminars and keynote papers at several universities and conferences in Brazil -- I have initiated a number of new joint research and exchange programs with major universities in Brazil.

During 1995, I delivered keynote addresses at two major international conferences held in Singapore and Brazil.

» UIC

I have continued these extension activities at UIC. I organized a successful short course on "Low-power RF IC Design" in October 1996 at UIC which was attended by over 20 engineers, students and faculty from various organizations.

In the summer of 1996, I held an invited visiting professorship at the University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. I am also co-advising a PhD student (Stephanne Azzopardi) at the University of Bordeaux along with Prof. C. Zardini. The student is currently (April 7-12, 1997) visitng in my group at UIC. I plan to continue this effort again in 1997 as I have been invited to visit University of Bordeaux (and several other institutions in France) again in the summer of 1997.

In the summer of 1996, I was invited by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden to present two lectures on "Power Semiconductor Devices," and "Low Power Electronics" as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society. I am currently co-advising Mr. Todd Karlin on his PhD thesis who is working under the supervision of Prof. M. Ostling at KTH. I have been invited to visit KTH again in the summer of 1997 to attend the thesis defense of Mr. Karlin and also to present several lectures at various institutions in Sweden and Switzerland. This interaction is developing into a very strong collaborative effort in many proposals.

During December 1996 - Januray 1997, I visited several key instutions in the far eastern and Asian countries including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and India and presented IEEE EDS Distinguished Lectures. These institutions included: 1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clearwater Bay, Kawloon, Hong Kong; 2. National Tsing Hua University, Hinschu, Taiwan; 3. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; 4. Microelectronics Center, TsingHua University, Beijing, China; 5. Nankai University, Tianjin, China; 6. Microelectronics R&D Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; 7. Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute (BVERI), Beijing, China; 8. ASIC Design Center, Electrical Engineering Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; 9. Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India; 10. Department of Electronics, Government of India, New Delhi, India; 11. Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. These visits helped to attract high quality students to apply to UIC and also to establish research collaboration in many areas.

As an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer, I also presented seminars at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL; and at the IEEE Chicago Section, Schaumburg, IL.

Journal Editorships

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 1990 - Present
• Member, Editorial Board, J. Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers (JIETE), India, 1992 - Present
• Editor-in-Chief (Founding), IEEE Electron Devices Society Newsletter, 1993 - Present
• Associate Editor, J. Circuits, Systems and Computers, 1996-Present
• Guest Editor, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Special Issue on "High-Speed IC Design," October 1994.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Special Issue on "Submicron Bipolar/BiCMOS Devices and Technologies," March 1995.
• Guest Editor, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Special Issue on "High-Speed IC Design," January 1996.

Course Development

I have upgraded EECS 467 and EECS 567 and introduced a new course EECS 468. These three courses form a strong VLSI course sequence. I taught EECS 467 in the Spring 1996 semester with 33 registered students, EECS 468 in the Fall 1996 semester with 18 registered students, EECS 567 in the Spring 1997 semester had 15 registered students, EECS 467 in the Fall 1997 semester had 29 registered students, and EECS 468 in the Spring 1998 semester currently has 15 registered students. I have also developed a new course EECS 442: Power Semiconductor Devices. I taught this course in the Spring 1996 and Fall 1997 semesters with 15 registered students, each time. I am currently revising and teaching EECS 445: Analysis and Design of Power Converters for the Spring 1998 semester with 15 registered students.

I have acquired state-of-the art CAD tools worth over $5 million. These include, Silvaco tools used in technology simulation, SABER used for behavioral circuit simulation and CADENCE used for VLSI design and layout. These tools are successfully integrated into all courses that I have been teaching. Currently, I am negotiating over $10 million CAD tool donation with HPEEsof. These CAD tools are also being used by several other faculty.

I have been instrumental in obtaining EECS Departmental (and IBHE) funding of over $150,000 to upgrade our departmental computing laboratory. I am also successful in obtaining over $165,000 funding to initiate a new Power Electronics Laboratory for EECS 442 and EECS 445 courses. The equipment is in order and experiments are being developed. I plan to integrate this laboratory beginning Spring 1999 semester.

Currently developing laboratory experiments and manuals for EECS 442 and EECS 445 courses Introduced and integrated advanced Semiconductor Technology CAD tools into all courses taught Developed two new courses -- EECS 442 and EECS 468 Improved three existing courses -- EECS 445, EECS 467 and EECS 567

Awards and Honors Received

• 1997 Fellow, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago
• 1998 Fellow (nominated), IEEE (for evaluation by the Electron Devices Society)

Other

I am now developing collaborative research projects with Prof. Tamas Roska, Director, Neuromorphic Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. I am currently working with Prof. Magali Estrada del Cueto, Department of Electrical Engineering, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico, D.F. in developing joint research projects funded by US National Science Foundation and CONACyT of Mexico. I have been invited to visit several academic institutions and industries in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina in 1998.

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