Madhavan Swaminathan
Madhavan Swaminathan | |
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| Occupation(s) | Electrical engineer, academic |
| Years active | –present |
| Known for | Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Penn State University; William E. Leonhard Endowed Professorship |
Madhavan Swaminathan currently serves as the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and holds the William E. Leonhard Endowed Professorship at Penn State University. Prior to this role, he dedicated 28 years to the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Education
He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (previously known as Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli), India, in 1985. Subsequently, he obtained both his Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University in 1989 and 1991, respectively.
Career
In 2023, Swaminathan assumed the position of department head and William E. Leonhard Endowed Chair at Penn State's Electrical Engineering Department.
During his tenure at Georgia Tech, he held the John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics and directed the Center for Co-Design of Chip, Package, and System. Additionally, he was appointed Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics and acted as Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation Microsystems Packaging Research Center. Before joining Georgia Tech, he contributed to IBM, focusing on packaging solutions for supercomputers.
Swaminathan has an extensive publication record with over 450 peer-reviewed papers and possesses 29 patents. He is also the lead author or co-editor of three significant books: Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems (2007), Introduction to System on Package (2008), and Design and Modeling for 3D ICs and Interposers (2013).
Awards
- Fellow of the IEEE
- Recognized as Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE EMC Society
- Recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award from the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society
- Honored with the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award by the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India