Plenary Speaker

A System Driven Approach to Semiconductor Innovation

Suman Datta (Georgia Tech)

Biography: Suman Datta is the Joseph M Pettit Chair Professor of Advanced Computing and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to that, he was the Stinson Chair Professor of Nanotechnology in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1999 till 2007, he was in the Advanced Transistor Group at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, where he led device R&D effort for several generations of high-performance logic transistors such as high-k/metal gate, Tri-gate and non-silicon channel CMOS technologies. His research group focuses on emerging devices that enable new compute models such as in-memory compute, cognitive compute, cryogenic compute etc. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He has published over 400 journal and refereed conference papers and holds 187 patents related to semiconductor devices.