Sunil A. Bhave

Sunil A. Bhave (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He was a Professor with Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, for ten years and worked at Analog Devices, Woburn, MA, USA, for five years. In April 2015, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, where he is currently the Associate Director of operations at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. He is a Co-Founder of Silicon Clocks, Fremont, CA, USA, that was acquired by Silicon Labs, Austin, TX, USA, in April 2010. His research interests focus on the interdomain coupling in optomechanical, spin-acoustic, and color center-MEMS devices. Dr. Bhave received the NSF CAREER Award in 2007, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008, the IEEE Ultrasonics Society’s Young Investigator Award in 2014, and the Google Faculty Research Award in 2020. His students have received best paper awards at the IEEE Photonics 2012, the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2009, and IEDM 2007.