Rajiv V. Joshi is an

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and research staff member at IBM's

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. His work focuses on the development of

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s and memory chips. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the Industrial Pioneer Award from the

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in 2013 and the

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in 2018. He holds 271 U.S.

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s.US Patents with Rajiv Joshi as inventor as of 16 January 2016
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Education

Joshi holds a

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in mechanical engineering from

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. He came to the United States in 1977 to pursue a master's degree at

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and a doctoral degree at

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Technical Innovations

Integrated Circuit Interconnect Dr. Joshi led innovation in new materials for integrated circuit interconnects, including refractory metals contacts, liners, and deposition techniques, chemical mechanical polishing processes, and large grain copper to prevent adverse effects. These inventions enabled replacement of conventional aluminum by copper and allowed achievement of multi-level wiring for further miniaturization of chips with low power. In state of the art microprocessors, there over 15 Billion transistors and over 50 km of Copper Interconnect. Predictive Failure Analytics for Big Data Joshi led development of many techniques for accelerating

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. This approach more rapidly estimates failure and optimizes the objective function. His techniques are 5-6 orders of magnitude faster than the conventional techniques which set the research across multiple CAD companies. Advanced Integrated Circuit Memory Joshi created several novel high speed memory innovations including MRAM, TRAM, IN-Memory computation enabling memory technology to scale beyond previously predicted Moore's Law limits, while improving bandwidth, performance and data movement. Technology-Circuit Co-design Joshi demonstrated the first high performance register file which helped to make the decision to change from bulk to SOI technology. Joshi demonstrated first time application of FinFET for low power and high performance SRAM and proposed strained non-planar devices. Such FinFETs are widely used in the industry. Low Power Circuits Joshi developed lower power circuits for energy efficient. Low power is essential for functionality and performance of VLSI Circuits . present/future Internet of everything (IOE) requires such techniques. Joshi's recent low power memory operating at 0.3V is an example. His work received wide spread publicity in EE Times.

Awards

* In 2020 Rajiv Joshi won the "Inventor of the Year" award by

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. * Elected to Board of Governors (BOG), IEEE, Circuits and Systems Society, 2019. * In 2018

* Fellow, World Technology Network, Dec 2016 * Best Editor for IEEE Trans on TVLSI July 2016 * Inducted into New Jersey Inventor Hall of Fame 2014 (other honorees include Nikola Tesla) * In 2013 Industrial Pioneer Award from the

* IEEE/ACM William J. Mccalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, ICCAD 2009 * Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India 2008 * IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronics and Design (ISQED) Fellow, 2007 * IEEE Fellow 2001 for contributions to chip metallurgy materials and processes, and high performance processor and circuit designhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37273934800

References

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