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Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti is the Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Kennedy School where he is concurrently the Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy program. He was the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics, and the immediate past Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University (1998-2008) and concurrent past Dean of Physical Sciences (2003-2006).
He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics, and ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) and photonics. He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics: the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is an elected member of National Academy of Engineering and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He has previously been a member of the Science Advisory Board for the NASA JPL CSMT (Center for Space Microelectronic Technology). He is currently a member of the NASA JPL MircoDevices Laboratory Visiting Committee. He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Tohuku University.
He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1965. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1968 as a member of the technical staff and became director of solid state electronics research in 1981. He was Vice President of Research and Exploratory Technology at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., from 1987 to 1992. From 1992 to 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
