Girish Pahwa (吉里斯)
Assistant Professor
International College of Semiconductor Technology
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Office: EF471, Engineering Building 6, No. 1001, Daxue Rd, East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300
Email: girish@nycu.edu.tw
Phone: +886-3-5712121#55931
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Education:
2014 – 2020 Joint Ph. D.-M.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2010 – 2014 B.Tech., Electronics and Communication Engineering, Delhi Technological University
Experience:
2024.03 – present Assistant Professor, International College of Semiconductor Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2022.03 – 2024.02 Executive Director, Berkeley Device Modeling Center, University of California Berkeley
2022.03 – 2024.02 Assistant Professional Researcher, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley
2020.12 – 2022.02 Center Manager, Berkeley Device Modeling Center, University of California Berkeley
2020.05 – 2022.02 Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley
2019.12 – 2020.05 Research and Development Engineer 1, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley
Administrative Duties:
2024.09 – present Member of Library Advisory Committee, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2024.09 – 2024.12 In-charge of ICST Technical Seminar Course, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Awards and Recognitions:
- Selected as a member of the review committee of the VLSI Design conference (VLSID 2025) for the Electronic Design Automation & CAD track, 2024.
- Selected as a committee member of IEEE EDS Electronic Materials Committee, 2024.
- Technical program committee member of DTCO/STCO track at IEEE Electron Device Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) Conference, 2024.
- Selected as a committee member of IEEE EDS Compact Modeling Committe, 2024.
- IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) Early Career Award, by IEEE EDS, 2022: This is one of the highest honors of IEEE EDS and recognizes early career technical development within the EDS’s field of interest.
- Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award by IIT Kanpur, 2020.
- Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), Mumbai, India, 2016 for the paper titled “Energy-Delay Tradeoffs in Negative Capacitance FinFET based CMOS Circuits”.
- Panelist for IEEE EDS Networking Event for young professionals held on Nov 2, 2022.
- Invited for IEEE EDS Webinar on “Compact Modeling of Emerging Ferroelectric Devices”, held on Nov 30, 2022.
- Best Presentation Award (co-author), at IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2018, for the paper on “Compact Modeling of Drain Current in Double Gate Negative Capacitance MFIS Transistor”.
- Reviewer of the following journals: IEEE Electron Device Letters (appeared in golden list of the reviewers from 2017-2022), IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (appeared in golden list of the reviewers from 2017-2023), Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency, IEEE Access, Solid State Electronics, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Microelectronics Journal, IETE Technical Review, IET Circuits, Devices, and Systems.
- Science and Engineering Research Board, India Travel Grant 2019.
- Certificate of Merit by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India, for being among the top 0.1% of successful candidates of the CBSE Senior School Certificate Examination in Physics, 2009.
- Indira Award by the Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi for excelling in the CBSE Secondary School Examination, 2007.
Biography:
Girish Pahwa currently serves as an assistant professor at the International College of Semiconductor Technology at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Girish’s research primarily focuses on the device modeling, simulation, and device-circuit co-design of emerging nanoscale technologies. Prior to this role, Girish held positions as an assistant professional researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. During his tenure there, he notably served as the executive director of the Berkeley Device Modeling Center (BDMC) from March 2022 to February 2024, and as the center manager of the BDMC and BSIM (Berkeley Short Channel IGFET model) group from December 2020 to February 2023. He also contributed as a postdoctoral scholar and research & development engineer in the EECS department, UC Berkeley from May 2020 to February 2023.
Girish earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 2020, following his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Delhi Technological University in 2014.
At the BDMC, Girish played a pivotal role in advancing the BSIM suite of compact models as the industry-standard tools for IC simulation and design in emerging applications. His work extends to the development of first industry standard cryogenic FinFET and FDSOI compact models, essential for the design of ICs relevant to quantum computing and cold electronics. He also developed ferroelectric device models and contributed extensively to the physics and device-circuit co-design strategies of these emerging devices that can potentially reduce CMOS power consumption many folds or enable computing in memory for artificial intelligence or other applications. He has also made significant contributions in developing industry-standard models for Thin Film Transistors and high-voltage MOSFETs, crucial for display and 3D BEOL integration, and power IC applications, respectively.
Girish is an active member of professional organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Electron Devices Society (EDS). He serves as a reviewer for several journals and has over 65 technical publications in renowned journals and conferences. His contributions have been recognized with the IEEE EDS early career award 2022, the outstanding Ph.D. thesis award from IIT Kanpur in 2020 and the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE) in Mumbai, India, in 2016.