Debdeep Jena, Cornell

Debdeep Jena is the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is a field member in the department of Applied and Engineering Physics. His teaching and research are in the quantum physics of semiconductors and electronic and photonic devices based on quantized semiconductor structures, and their heterostructures with superconductors, ferroelectrics and magnets, with applications in energy-efficient transistors, light-emitting diodes and RF and power electronics and quantum computation and communications. His research is driven by the goal to enable orders of magnitude increase in the energy efficiency and speed for computation, memory, communications, lighting, and electrical energy management ranging from the chip to the grid. The research from his group has been published in more than 300 journal papers including in Science, Nature, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Electron Device Letters. Several patents have been granted for their research work. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and is the winner of several awards, such as the ISCS young scientist award in 2012, MBE young scientist award in 2014, and awards from the industry, such as the IBM faculty award in 2012, and most recently the Intel Outstanding Research award in 2020.