Ananth Dodabalapur is an Indian-American engineer, currently the Motorola Regents Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and previously the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor, at

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and a published author. He was formerly with

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, Murray Hill, NJ for more than 10 years.

Research

His research has been in the areas of organic and inorganic semiconductor devices. His recent research is on nanoscale devices for 3D integrated circuits and new device architectures for displays, neuromorphic computing, printed electronics, and light emission. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs, transistors, and Photonic Crystal Lasers. He has also worked on chemical sensors and Nano-Optics. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Flexible and Printed Electronics. His research work has been cited more than 30,000 times. His H-index is approximately 95. He holds 27 US patents and these have been cited more than 2000 times. He has co-founded two companies - OrganiciD and Sensorbit Systems. OrganicID was acquired by

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in 2006.

Awards and Recognition

He is a Fellow of the

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and

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and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's who in Science and Engineering. He is a recipient of the 2002 National Award for Team Innovation from the

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. His work on Organic Transistors has been listed in a compilation of key achievements in Electronics for the 20th century National Academy of Engineering#Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century in the category of Electronics. He has also made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs and Photonic Crystal Lasers. In March 2007, he was conferred honorary citizenship of the City of

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. He has received an "Old Cottonian of Eminence" Award from his Alma Mater,

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, Bangalore in 2022.

Personal

He was born in

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, India in 1963. He attended

in Bangalore,

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(where he received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering), and

, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990. He is married to Rati Chitnis Dodabalapur and has two children, Sonia and Siddharth. He currently lives in the city of

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. He is a descendant of

Dewan ''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the el ...

Purniah, the First Dewan of Mysore and of Dewan Sir P. N. Krishnamurti. He is a member of The Texas Rowing Center in Austin.

References

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