Dr Parasuraman Swaminathan graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2003 with a Bachelors's and Masters's degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He completed his PhD in 2009 from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) before joining Intel Corp in 2011 as a Module and Yield Integration Engineer. In 2013, he joined IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor and is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Electronic Materials and Thin Films Lab. His group works on printed electronics to develop flexible transparent sensors and low-power displays.
Printed and flexible electronics
Nanostructure synthesis
Electronic device fabrication
2022 - till date
2018 - 2022
2013 - 2018
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
2018-IIT Madras Young Faculty Recognition Award (YFRA) for excellence in teaching and research
2015-Certificate for online course content creation for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
2013-Intel Logic Technology Division (LTD) Award Q1
2006-Mavis Memorial Fund scholarship for outstanding engineering graduate students in research and teaching
