# Indian Citizen# U.S. Permanent Resident # Past Experience & Affiliations: | Akoustis | Carnegie Mellon University | Tohoku University | Japanese Government MEXT Scholar | IIT Kharagpur | VNIT Nagpur | Nagpur University # 15+ years of design, simulation, fabrication, characterization, and analysis experience on MEMS, plate modes, SAW and BAW devices# Reviewer: IEEE JMEMS, IEEE TED, IEEE T-MTT, APL, IEEE EDL, IEEE Journal of Microwave, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (T-UFFC), etc. # Member: Senior IEEE Member, Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS)# Piezoelectric materials: Aluminum Nitride, Sc-doped Aluminum Nitride, PZT, and Lithium Niobate# Projects: Monolithic integration of FBAR above CMOS for VCO, ScAlN based SAW devices for automobile application, Stability and aging of piezoelectricity in ScAlN and PZT films, Plate modes in ScAlN, X-cut LN, Y-cut LN, SH-SAW in X-cut LN, Integration of acoustic, mechanical and electronic elements for low power wake up receiver (Resonant Micromechanical Receiver), Colpitts oscillator using AlN and LN based plate mode resonators, BAW device design, 8-18 GHz BAW resonators, process support for novel designs, etc. # Micro Fabrication Processes (small size chip, 100 mm and 150 mm wafer processes): Wafer dicing, cleaning, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), SUSS Mask aligner & bonder (adhesive based), Hiedelberg’s laser pattern generator (DWL 2000), photolithography, Nikon and ASML 5X steppers, ELIONIX’s EB lithography, wet etching, dry etching (Cl-based, F-based and ion milling), vapor phase etching (Si using XeF2), PECVD, Sputtering (DC, RF and AC reactive), EB evaporation and lift-off.# Characterization: Dektak’s surface profilometer, Nanospec’s Thickness measurement, X-ray Diffraction (conventional and 2D), SEM, EDS, PIEZOTEST’s d33 meter, aixACCT’s Double Beam Laser Interferometer (DBLI), Polytec’s MSA-500 Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV), Spectrum Analyzer, UHF ZI box and Agilent’s Vector Network Analyzer.# Design and Analysis: Cadence Virtuoso Layout Editor and SKILL code for automated layout generation, COMSOL Multiphysics, FEMTET (FEM tool from Murata), ADS, MATLAB, Python and JMP.# Others: International Work Experience, Scientific Writing, Academic Leadership, Project Management, Teamwork, People Skills, Planning, Communication, University Lecturing.