A Nigerian professor, Prof. Deji Akinwande has received the 2016 Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama,
the United States government’s highest honor for scientists and
engineers.
Prof. Akinwande, an associate professor in electrical
and computer engineering and the Jack Kilby/Texas Instruments Endowed
Faculty Fellow in Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of
Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Texas
at Austin. His current focus of research explores materials and
electronic systems based on 2D atomic layers. He is a co-inventor of a
high-frequency chip-to-chip interconnect and an electrically small
antenna for bio-electronics.
Prof. Akinwande is known for his groundbreaking research on
nanomaterials, sensors, devices and flexible technology. He has been honored with the inaugural IEEE Nano Geim
and Novoselov Graphene Prize.
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