SAMAR K. SAHA

SAMAR K. SAHA is a Senior Technical Manager at Synopsys TCAD business unit, Mountain View, CA, an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering department at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, and an Associate Graduate Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. Prior to industry, Dr. Saha worked as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, and Auburn University, Auburn, AL. Since 1984 he worked in various positions for SST, National Semiconductor Corporation, LSI Logic Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Philips Semiconductors. He has authored more than 60 papers, holds four US patents, and offered tutorials/short-courses on Technology CAD and Compact modeling. His research interests include silicon nano-devices, NVM cells, and nano-crystal memory cell architecture, process, device and compact modeling, and TCAD and R&D management. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Gwahati University and M.S. degree in engineering management from Stanford University. Dr. Saha is a senior member of IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of Electron Devices Society (EDS). He is the chair of IEEE-EDS Compact Modeling Technical Committee, a member of EDS-meetings committee and publications committee, an EDS-representative to the Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), and the treasurer of Santa Clara Valley chapter of IEEE-EDS. He is the Head guest editor of the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on “Advanced Compact Models and 45-nm Modeling Challenges.”