Dr. Rajinder P. Khosla
Director of Electronics,
Photonics and Device Technology Program
Thursday,
March 13, 2003, 4:00pm, Physics 223
Coffee
and Refreshments 3:30pm, Physics 242
Abstract:
In
this talk we begin with a brief description of the mission and strategy of the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
Current NSF research and education programs as well as the background
for the most recent special program initiatives will be discussed. This will be followed by current status
of the “National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)”, which is
supported by a number of government agencies. We will discuss current status of the “Nanoscale Science and
Engineering” (NSE) program initiatives and will present some highlights
of the outcome of the NSE program.
The most current NSF program initiative on the National Nanotechnology
Infrastructure Network (NNIN) will be discussed in detail.
Dr.
Rajinder P. Khosla joined the National Science Foundation in October 1996 and
is currently the Director of the Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technology
(EPDT) and Integrative Systems (IS) Programs in the Electrical and Communications
Systems (ECS) Division in the Engineering Directorate. Most recently he has served as an
Acting Director of the ECS Division (January 2000-February 2002) and has been
on special assignment as an Embassy Fellow (March 2002-June 2002), to study the
state of Nanotechnology research in Japan, at the US Embassy in Tokyo on behalf
of the NSF and the US State Department.
Dr.
Khosla worked at Eastman Kodak Co. from 1966-96. He was the General Manager of the Microelectronics
Technology Division at Kodak from 1985-95, and was responsible for the
research, development, manufacturing and marketing of solid-state imagers and
support IC's.
Dr.
Khosla received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in
1966. In 1974-75, he was on an
“Academic award” from Kodak as a Visiting Scientist in the
Department of EE&CS at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the fall of 1989, he attended the
Harvard Business School for the Advanced Management Program. He was an Executive-on-Loan at Cornell
University during 1995-96 to develop industry/university relations.
His areas of expertise are "Nanotechnology;
Applications of Micro/Nanotechnologies in Biology and Medicine; Microelectronic
Devices and Processing Technologies; Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS);
Engineering Systems on a Chip; Electrical, Thermal, and Photoconductive
Properties of Materials; and Image Sensors and Imaging Systems.
Dr. Khosla is a Fellow of the
IEEE, Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Optical
Society of America. He was awarded
the 1990 IEEE Frederick Philips Award for R&D technical management. He is the Distinguished Alumnus of the
College of Science at Purdue University.
Dr. Khosla is one of the founders of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference and has been very active on program committees of a number of IEEE
conferences and the ADCOM of IEEE Electron Devices Society. From 1991-95, he served as a Member of
the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and is
presently a member of the Executive Technical Advisory Board of the SRC. Dr. Khosla is a member of the
“Committee on Careers & Professional Development” of the
American Physical Society. He is
also currently serving on the “IEEE Fellows Committee”.