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Faculty Profile - Madhavan Swaminathan

Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics; Professor; Director, Interconnect and Packaging Center an SRC Center of Excellence at Georgia Tech Electromagnetics Phone: 404.894.3340 Fax: 404.894.9959 Office: Klaus 1358 http://www.ece.gatech.edu/research/labs/hppdl

Biography

Madhavan Swaminathan received his B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication from the University of Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. He is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech and the Deputy Director of the Packaging Research Center, Georgia Tech. He is the founder of Jacket Micro Devices, a company specializing in integrated devices and modules for wireless applications where he serves as the Chief Scientist. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was with the Advanced Packaging Laboratory at IBM working on packaging for super computers.

Dr. Swaminathan has over 250 publications in refereed journals and conferences, has co-authored 3 book chapters, has 11 issued patents and has 6 patents pending. While at IBM, he reached the second invention plateau. He served as the Co-Chair for the 1998 and 1999 IEEE Topical Meeting on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging (EPEP), served as the Technical and General Chair for the IMAPS Next Generation IC & Package Design Workshop, serves as the Chair of TC-12, the Technical Committee on Electrical Design, Modeling and Simulation within the IEEE CPMT society and was the Co-Chair for the 2001 IEEE Future Directions in IC and Package Design Workshop. He is the co-founder of the IMAPS Next Generation IC & Package Design Workshop and the IEEE Future Directions in IC and Package Design Workshop. He also serves on the technical program committees of EPEP, Signal Propagation on Interconnects workshop, Solid State Devices and Materials Conference (SSDM), Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), and International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).

He has also served as the co-author and advisor for a number of outstanding student paper awards at EPEP '00, EPEP '02, EPEP '03, EPEP '04, ECTC '98 and the 1997 IMAPS Education Award. Dr. Swaminathan is the recipient of the Shri. Mukhopadyay best paper award at the International Conference on Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility (INCEMIC), Chennai, India, 2003, the 2004 best paper award in the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, the 2004 commendable paper award in the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging and the best poster paper award at ECTC '04.

Prof. Swaminathan's research interests are in mixed signal microsystems which include digital, RF, optoelectronics and sensors with emphasis on design, modeling, characterization and test.

Selected Publications, Patents

Last revised on July 07, 2009.