Jing Zhang
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY·Engineering
Nearly every modern technology, from artificial intelligence (AI) and electric vehicles to high-performance computing, virtual reality and quantum devices, runs on advanced semiconductor chips. The United States faces a shortage of people trained to design and build them, especially at the graduate level.
- Fields
Engineering
Materials Science
Education Research
- Topics
semiconductors
CMOS+X
microelectronics
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2029
What they work on
- Advance interdisciplinary semiconductor research in four tracks spanning physics and materials science, micro- and nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and photonics, and integrated circuits and packaging, all built on CMOS chip technology.
- Train about 170 graduate students across engineering, physics and materials science in CMOS+X technologies, which combine standard chip technology with fields such as AI, quantum and photonics.
- Establish and evaluate a lasting graduate training model for semiconductor talent, including how to train diverse cohorts for industry, government and academia.
More about the research
This grant creates a graduate research training program built around CMOS+X technologies. Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) is the standard technology for making computer chips. In CMOS+X, it is combined with another field X, such as AI, biomedical, chemical, optoelectronic, photonic, nanoelectronic, quantum or packaging technologies.
Why it matters
Chip makers, government agencies and universities need more engineers and scientists trained in advanced semiconductors for AI, vehicle electrification, computing and quantum technology. By training over 170 graduate students and developing a reusable training model, this program could help close the U.S. semiconductor workforce gap.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Rochester Institute of Technology: 9 labs on PI Pages, $78M a year on research, 65 research doctorates a year.
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