Education
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IIT Madras PhD in Ultra Thin Oxide MOS Devices, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Chennai 2003 - 2007
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IIT Madras M.Tech. in MicroElectronics and VLSI Design, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Chennai 1999 - 2001
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University of Calicut B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Kerala 1988 - 1992
Research Interests
- Spiking Neural Networks
- Non-volatile Memory-based In-Memory Computing
- Application of Neuromorphic Circuits in healthcare domain
- Mixed Signal IC Design
- Microelectronics and MEMS
- M Tech VLSI candidates interested in pursuing PhD in the above domains may please apply to our call for Visvesvaraya PhD scheme in MeitY C2S Project: http://admissions.iiitdm.ac.in/phd_2404/index.php
Work Experience
Teaching
- Faculty Member in Electronics Engineering in College of Engineering, Chengannur, Kerala, for 8 years
- Faculty Member in Electronics Engineering in IIITDM Kancheepuram from Oct 2008
Industry
- Neuromorphic Circuit Design (Analog and Digital Circuit Design - Ongoing)
- Switch Capacitor circuit simulator Development (Completed-GUI remaining)
- Sigma Delta ADC (ongoing, fabrication is planned in SCL, Punjab under SMDP-C2SD sponsored
- by MeitY))
- Composite PFD based PLL (design is completed and fabrication is planned in SCL, Punjab under SMDP-C2SD sponsored by MeitY)
- Fabrication, characterization and extraction of conduction Mechanisms in SiC MIS Capacitors with High-k dielectrics of which fabrication and characterization was carried out in Centre for Nano Science and Engg, IISc Bangalore through INUP (completed)
- In the sponsored project ???Novel Oxidation Techniques for improvement in the Electrical properties of Ultra-thin SiO2 for VLSI technology??? coordinated by Prof. Nandita DasGupta in Microelectronics and MEMS Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras (completed)
- Study of Novel gate oxidation techniques for future MOS devices (completed)
- Study of high-k gate dielectrics for future MOS devices (completed)
- Study of Laser Induced Oxidation as a viable technique to grow ultra thin SiO2 (completed)
- Study of Rapid thermal Oxidation technique to grow ultra thin SiO2 (completed)
- Optimization of HNO3 Vapour oxidation technique to grow ultra thin SiO2 (completed)
- Study of the effect of phosphorus doping on passivation of grain boundaries in poly Si TFTs (completed)