Madhavan Swaminathan is the Department Head of Electrical Engineering and is the William E. Leonhard Endowed Chair at

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. He was previously worked at

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for 28 years.

Education

He received his Bachelor of Engineering (

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) Degree in

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from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now known as

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in 1985 and Master of Science (

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) and Doctorate of Philosophy (

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) degrees in

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from

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in 1989 and 1991, respectively.

Career

Madhavan joined Penn State as the head of electrical engineering and William E. Leonhard Endowed Chair in 2023. Madhavan was the John Pippin Chair in Electromagnetics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Co-Design of Chip, Package, System,

. He formerly held the position of Joseph M. Pettit Professor in Electronics and Deputy Director of the

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Microsystems Packaging Research Center, Georgia Techn. Prior to joining Georgia Techn, he was with

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working on packaging for supercomputers. Madhavan is the author of more than 450 refereed technical publications, holds 29 patents, also primary author and co-editor of three books (''Power Integrity Modeling and Design for Semiconductors and Systems'', Prentice Hall, 2007; ''Introduction to System on Package'', McGraw Hill, 2008; and ''Design and Modeling for 3D ICs and Interposers'', WSP, 2013).

Awards

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

Fellow * Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE EMC Society * 2014 Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award, IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society * 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli,

References

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