Dr. Rajinder P. Khosla joined the
National Science Foundation in October 1996 and is currently the Director
of the Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technology (EPDT) and Integrative
Systems (IS) Programs in the Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) Division
in the Engineering Directorate. Most recently he has served as an Acting Director
of the ECS Division (January 2000-February 2002) and has been on special assignment
as an Embassy Fellow (March 2002 June 2002), to study the state of Nanotechnology
research in Japan, at the US Embassy in Tokyo on behalf of the NSF and the
US State Department.
Dr. Khosla worked at Eastman Kodak Co. from 1966-96. He was the General Manager
of the Microelectronics Technology Division at Kodak from 1985-95, and was responsible
for the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of solid state imagers
and support IC's.
Dr. Khosla received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Purdue University
in 1966. In 1974-75, he was on an "Academic award" from Kodak as a Visiting
Scientist in the Department of EE&CS at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. In the fall of 1989, he attended the Harvard Business School for the
Advanced Management Program. He was an Executive-on Loan at Cornell University
during 1995-96 to develop industry/university relations.
His areas of expertise are "Nanotechnology; Applications of Micro/nanotechnologies
in Biology and Medicine; Microelectronic Devices and Processing Technologies;
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS);
Engineering Systems on a Chip; Electrical, Thermal, and Photoconductive Properties
of Materials; and Image Sensors and Imaging Systems.
Dr. Khosla is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the American Physical Society
and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was awarded the 1990 IEEE
Frederick Philips Award for R&D technical management. He is the
Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Science at Purdue University. Dr.
Khosla is one of the founders of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
and has been very active on program committees of a number of IEEE conferences
and the ADCOM of IEEE Electron Devices Society. From 1991-95, he served as a
Member of the Board of Directors of the
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and is presently a member of the
Executive Technical Advisory Board of the SRC.