Pallab Bhattacharya

Pallab Bhattacharya is the Charles M. Vest Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the James R. Mellor Professor Emeritus of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received the M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sheffield, UK. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physics D. He has edited Properties of Lattice-Matched and Strained InGaAs (UK: INSPEC, 1993) and Properties of III-V Quantum Wells and Superlattices (UK: INSPEC, 1996). He has also authored the textbook Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (Prentice Hall, 2nd edition). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of compound semiconductors, low-dimensional quantum confined systems, nanophotonics, spintronics and optoelectronic integrated circuits. His group has conducted extensive research on molecular beam epitaxy of strained heterostructures and their electronic and optoelectronic devices, III-V and III-nitride quantum dot lasers, LEDs and single-photon sources, nanowire heterostructures and light sources, hot-carrier dynamics in quantum well and quantum dot lasers, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and spintronic devices.

Professor Bhattacharya is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded the D. Eng. (honoris causa) degree from the University of Sheffield, U.K. He has also received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The professional awards he has received include the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, the Heinrich Welker Medal, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the IEEE (LEOS) Engineering Achievement Award, the IEEE (Nanotechnology Council) Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, the Optical Society of America (OSA) Nick Holonyak Award, the TMS John Bardeen Award, and the Quantum Devices Award of the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America, and the National Academy of Inventors.