Pinaki Mazumder, Univsersity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
For contributions to the field of VLSI design.
Pinaki Mazumder is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his BSEE degree from the Indian Institute of Science in 1976, MS degree in computer science from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1985, and his doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988. As a Research Assistant at the Bharat Electronics Ltd. (a collaborator of RCA), India, for over six years, he developed several types of analog and digital integrated circuits for consumer electronics products. During the summer of 1985 and 1986, he was a Member of the

Technical Staff in the Indian Hill branch of AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he developed C modeling based CONES synthesis tool.
He has published over 100 papers on the topics of VLSI testing, physical design automation, and ultrafast circuit design in archival journals and proceedings of the international conferences. Dr. Mazumder was a recipient of DigitalŐs Incentives for Excellence Award, BF Goodrich National Collegiate Invention Award, National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award and Bell Northern Research Laboratory Faculty Award. He has co-authored two books. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Design and Test MagazineŐs special issue on multimegabit memory testing, March 1993 and the Journal of Electronic Testing - Theory and Applications special issue on memory testing and reliability, June 1994. He is the guest editor of two special issues on emerging nanoelectronic technologies and their applications in IEEE Transactions on VLSI Sytstems (December 1997) and the Proceedings of the IEEE (1998). He is also an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI.
He is a member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and ACM SIGDA. (Ref)

 

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Pinaki Mazumder  files caste discrimination suit against another NRI Promod Khargonekar, the former chairman of the department of electrical engineering and computer science, is a Brahmin, the highest in the caste hierarchy.