Sanjay Raman is an American
electrical engineer
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. He is the dean of the
College of Engineering
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at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
.
He was previously a professor of electrical and computer engineering at
Virginia Tech
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, where he was also associate vice president of Virginia Tech in the National Capital Region.
From 2007-2013, Raman was a program manager in the
Microsystems Technology Office The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is one of seven current organizational divisions of DARPA, an agency responsible for the development of new technology for the United States Armed Forces. It is sometimes referred to as the Microelectronics T ...
of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Originally known as the Adv ...
(DARPA). For his service in the DARPA, he was awarded the
Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service in 2013.
He was awarded the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
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in 1999, for his research into the application of
mixed-signal integrated circuits
A mixed-signal integrated circuit is any integrated circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die.[wireless communications
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and for his work on
microwave engineering
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. He was also named a
(IEEE) in 2013
for his work on adaptive
microwave
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and
millimeter-wave
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integrated circuits.
Raman earned his
B.S.
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in electrical engineering from
Georgia Tech
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in 1987. He subsequently served as
nuclear
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-trained submarine officer in the
U.S. Navy
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from 1987 to 1992. He earned his
Ph.D
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in electrical engineering from the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
in 1998.
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Fellows of the IEEE
Living people
Virginia Tech faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American electrical engineers
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University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
University of Michigan alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
United States Navy submariners
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers