G. Ramanath Professor of Materials Science and Engineering 111 Materials Research Center Phone: (518) 276-6844 E-mail: Ramanath [at] rpi [dot] edu

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EDUCATION

• Ph.D.(1997) University of Illinois, Urbana, IL., Materials Science and Engineering
• M.S.(1993) University of Cincinnati, OH., Materials Science and Engineering
• B.Tech.(1990) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai), India, Metallurgical Engineering

APPOINTMENTS

• Professor, MSE Department, RPI, Troy, NY (12/06 – )
• Tenured Associate Professor, MSE Department, RPI, Troy, NY (5/03 – 12/06)
• Visiting Professor, Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia (6/07 – 7/07)
• Visiting Professor, Materials Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (6/06 – 8/06)
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany (9/04 – 8/05)
• Visiting Professor, International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba, Japan (7/04 – 9/04)
• Tenure-track Assistant Professor, MSE Department, RPI, Troy, NY (7/98 – 5/03)
• Visiting Scientist, Physics Department, Linköping University, Sweden (3/98 – 7/98)
• Member of Technical Staff, Novellus Systems Inc, San Jose, CA (1/97 – 3/98)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (10/03 – )
• Editorial Advisory Board member, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (2005-)
• Editorial Advisory Board member, The Open Materials Science Journal (2007-)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Best paper award, 7th International Conference on Nanotechnolgy (IEEE-Nano, Hong Kong, 2007)
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2004)
• Prof. Bergmann Memorial Young Scientist Award, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2003)
• School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2003)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2000)
• IBM Research Partnership Award–University Partnership Program—co-recipient (1999-2001)
• Recent works on nanotubes growth and properties were featured in Science News, Business Review, Washington Times, C&E News, Eetimes, local TV channels (April/May 2002)
• MRS Graduate Student Award (now known as Gold Award), MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (December 1996)
• Ph.D. work was Technology News in Solid State Technology (2/97) & Wafer News (12/96)
• Best Poster, High-temperature Intermetallics Symposium, MRS Fall, Boston (December 1992)
• Honor societies: Alpha Sigma Mu (1990- ) and Phi Kappa Phi (1995- )
  

ADVISEE AWARDS

• MRS Graduate Student Gold Award for outstanding conduct of Materials Research (M.S. Raghuveer), Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco (April 2005).
• First prize, Student poster contest (M.S. Raghuveer), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (November 2005)
• First prize, professionals poster contest (Qingyu Yan), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (November 2005)
• First prize, micrograph contest (S. Agrawal), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (November 2005)
• Second prize, micrograph contest (P. Victor), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (November 2004)
• Second prize, poster competition (M.S. Raghuveer), NY-Nanotech (October 2004)
• Nominee, best poster (P.G.Ganesan), Spring MRS meeting, San Francisco (April 2003)
• Best poster (M.J. Frederick), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (November 2003)
• Best micrograph award (M.J. Frederick), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (2003)
• 2nd Prize, poster, (T. Maddanimath, J. D’Arcy-Gall), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (2003)
• 2nd Prize, poster, (Amanda Ellis), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (Nov 2002)
• 1st Prize in poster competition (G. Cui), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (Nov 2001)
• 2nd Prize in poster competition (H. Kim), ASM/TMS Hudson Mohawk chapter (Nov 2001)
• Best micrograph award (Rory Leahy) Hudson Mohawk chapter ASM/TMS (Nov ’99, ‘01)

PUBLICATIONS AND TALKS

• 110+ journal and conference articles
• 4 patents issued, 14 pending
• 85+ invited talks in conferences, colloquia at universities and laboratories
• 30+ contributed conference presentations.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

• Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (Oct 2003-)
• Editorial Advisory Board member, Journal of Experimental Nanoscience (2005-)
• Editorial Advisory Board member, The Open Materials Science Journal (2007-)
• Symposium Chair, "Nanofunctional Materials" Nano-2006, Bangalore, INDIA (August 2006).
• Director, NSF-REU summer program at the MS&E Department (2001-2003)
• Member, US-Japan Young Scientist Exchange Visit Team in Nanotechnology (2003)
• Symposium Chair, "Mesoscale architectures from nanounits: assembly, fabrication and properties" (GG) Materials Research Society Fall meeting (Dec 2004)
• Symposium Chair, "New Horizons in coatings and thin films" (H) International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego (2003, 2004)
• Conference Chair, NY-NANOTECH-a symposium on the Science and Fabrication of Nanosystems, Upstate NY chapter of American Vacuum Society (UNY-VAC) (August 6-8, 2002)
• Referee for Nature, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Applied Physics, Langmuir, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, European Journal of Chemistry, Small, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Colloids and Interfaces, Chemical Physics Letters, Nano Letters, Thin Solid Films, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Materials Letters, Materials Science and Engineering, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Surface Coatings and Technology, Applied Surface Science, Vacuum, Physics Letters A, Physica Status Solidi
• Judge, Materials Research Society Graduate Student Awards (2002)
• Judge, Poster competition TMS/ASM—Albany-Mohawk Chapter, November (2001).
• Referee, Columbus Foundation Invention Award (1999)
• Session Chair, Science and Applications of Nanomaterials, International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego (April 2002)
• Session Chair, Environmental effects in nanomaterials, Schenectady area ASM/TMS Spring Symposium on Environmental Effects on Advanced Materials at GE (April 2002).
• Session Chair, Nanoscale systems for sensing and imaging for symposium on bioMEMS and smart nanostructures, SPIE conference on Micro/MEMS, Adelaide, Australia (Dec 2001)
• Organized half-day long lecture demonstrations and site visits for high-school and middle school students on exciting concepts in science, Knickerbacker High (2001), Shenendehowa Central (2000)
• Hosted a high-school biology teacher for ten weeks in an effort to reach out to the K-12 system about materials science and nanotechnology.
• Board Member, Upstate NY chapter of American Vacuum Society (2002-2003)
• Member, Materials Research Society, American Vacuum Society, The Minerals Metals and Materials Society, American Society of Engineering Education

• Co-Chair, MSE Department Graduate RChairman, MS&E Department Graduate Curriculum Committee (August 2002-2006)
• Chairman, MS&E Department Colloquium and Distinguished Lecture series(2000-2003)
• Member, Department strategic planning committee (2001-present)
• Member, Committee for faculty search in nanomaterials (Jul 2001-present)
• Created video-modules on RBS and XPS for distance-learning graduate course (1999-2003)
• Faculty advisor, NSF-REU program at the MS&E Department at RPI (1999-2002)
• Chairman of Undergraduate Recruitment Committee (1999-2003)
• Director of Undergraduate Fellowship Program (2000-2002)
• Advisor, for MS&E undergraduates (Spring 1999, 2000)
• Member, Undergraduate curriculum committee (1999-2000)
• Chairman, Undergraduate recruiting committee (1998-2002)
• Advisor, undeclared-major undergraduates (Fall 1999-2002)
• Member, Department Diversity committee (2000)

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current PhD candidates

1. Binay Singh
2. Ashutosh Jain
3. Michael Joseph
4. Rutvik Mehta
5. Saurabh Garg
6. Gorun Butail

Alumni

1. Darshan Gandhi (PhD, 2007)
2. Amit Pratap Singh (PhD, 2007)
3. Saurabh Agrawal (PhD, 2007)
4. Raghuveer Makala (PhD, 2006)
5. Howard Kim (PhD, 2005)
6. Matt Frederick (PhD, 2003)
7. Trupti Maddanimath (PhD, 2006, Visiting student, Primary Advisor: Dr. K. Vijayamohanan, NCL, Pune, India)
8. Mike Stukowski (MS, 2003)
9. Guangchun Cui (MS, 2002)
10. Xiaoyun Guo (MS, 2002)
11. Xiochuan Wang (MS, 2002)
12. Harmeet Goindi (MS, 2001)
13. Kaushik Chanda (MS, 2001)

POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

Current

1. Dr. Qingyu (Alex) Yan
2. Dr. A. Purukayastha
3. Dr. G. Pattanaik
4. Dr. K. C. Rajanna

Alumni

1. Dr. Huafang Li
2. Dr. P.G. Ganesan
3. Dr. Victor Pushparaj (co-advised)
4. Dr. A. Kumar
5. Dr. Matt Frederick
6. Dr. J. D’Arcy-Gall
7. Dr. A.V. Ellis
8. Dr. A. Cao (co-advised)
9. Dr. K. Vijayamohanan (sabbatical)
10. Dr. R. Goswami
11. Dr. B. Wei (co-advised)
12. Dr. A. Krishnamoorthy
13. Dr. Z. Zhang (co-advised)

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

1. Sarah Burch (RPI 06-)
2. Mike Dibbiccari (RPI 06-)
3. Adam Plate (RPI 06)
4. Andrew Levine (RPI 06)
5. Nikki Bishop (RPI, 04-05)
6. A. Wise(RPI, ‘04 - present)
7. W. Joost (RPI, Spring, ‘03 - 04)
8. S. Anderson (Wash. State U., ‘03)
9. L. Snedeker (Mich. Tech. ‘03)
10. J. Reindieu (RPI, ‘03)
11. J. Michalicek (RPI, ‘02)
12. L. Underwood (RPI, ’03)
13. K. Dusling (Cooper Union, ‘02)
14. Casey Rhodes (RIT, '02)
15. A. Giagnacova (Lincoln U, '02)
16. O. Ahmadi (Yale, '01)
17. L. Klapp, (Cornell, '00)
18. T. Goeppinger, (U of Illinois, '99)
19. Jairaj Patel (RPI, ‘03)
20. Chitra Baid (RPI, ’00-‘02)
21. Erin McLellan (RPI, '01)
22. Ji-Hun Kim (RPI, ‘01)
23. John Marzano (RPI, ’01)
24. Ray Pang (RPI, ‘00)
25. Mike Ziegerhofer (RPI, ’00)
26. Dirk Scholvin (RPI, ‘99, ‘00)
27. Rory Leahy (Trinity college, Ireland, ‘99)
28. Mark Wilkinson (RPI, ‘99)
29. Matt Stowe (RPI, ‘99)
30. Greg Verni (RPI, ‘99)
31. Jon Belfort (U. Roch, ‘98)