Ananth Dodabalapur

Ananth Dodabalapur [1] is an Indian-American engineer, currently the Motorola Regents Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering[2], and previously the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor, at University of Texas at Austin and a published author. He was formerly with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ for more than 10 years.

Research

His research has been in the areas of organic and inorganic semiconductor devices. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs[3], 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 as been cited more than 30,000 times [4]. His H-index is approximately 90. He holds 27 US patents and these have been cited more than 1800 times [5]. He has co-founded two companies - OrganiciD[6] [7] and Sensorbit Systems[8][9][10]. OrganicID was acquired by Weyerhaeuser in 2006.

Awards and Recognition

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 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 American Chemical Society. 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 [11]. He has also made pioneering contributions to the fields of Organic LEDs[12] and Photonic Crystal Lasers. In March 2007, he was conferred honorary citizenship of the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Personal

He was born in Bangalore, India in 1963. He attended Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (where he received his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering), and University of Texas at Austin, 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 West Lake Hills, Texas. He is a descendent of Dewan Purniah, the First Dewan of Mysore and of Dewan Sir P. N. Krishnamurti. He is a member of The Texas Rowing Center

References

  1. ↑ Advanced Materials (PDF). 14: 1103 https://application.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2089/interviews2002/am_a_dodabalapur.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ http://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/ananth-dodabalapur. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Organic LEDs begin producing bright white light". Science. 267: 1262.
  4. ↑ "Ananth Dodabalapur". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ http://www.patentbuddy.com/SearchInventors. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=12457872. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ https://www.chron.com/news/article/PRN-Weyerhaeuser-Acquires-OrganicID-1581653.php. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ http://edge3technologies.com/edge3-acquires-sensorbit-systems/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/1239155D:US-sensorbit-systems-inc. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ http://www.sensorbit.com/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3956. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "Organic LEDs begin producing bright white light". Science. 267: 1262.


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