Sanjay Krishna

Professor Sanjay Krishna is the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and co-founder of SK Infrared. Professor Krishna is a world leading researcher and innovator in the field of narrow bandgap semiconductors applied to infrared imaging sensors and related technologies. He has more than 13 years of experience in the design, growth, fabrication and testing of infrared detectors and focal plane arrays. He is currently the George R. Smith Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University College of Engineering.

Prior to this, he was the Microelectronics Endowed Chair and Regents Professor at the University of New Mexico where he was also the Director of the Center for High Technology Materials. Professor Krishna received his Masters in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1996. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1999 and PhD in Applied Physics in 2001 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

His present research interests include growth, fabrication and characterization of self-assembled quantum dots and type_II InAs/InGaSb based strain layer superlattices for mid infrared detectors, and a research focus on antimony-based compound semiconductors.

Professor Krishna is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA and SPIE, and recipient of the 2007 NCMR-DIA Chief Scientist Award for Excellence. He has received many other peer-reviewed awards, including the the Gold Medal from IIT, Madras in 1996. He received the best student paper award at the 16th NAMBE Conference in Banff in 1999, the 2002 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, the 2003 IEEE Outstanding Engineering Award, 2007 North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator Award, and the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from SPIE and IEEE-Nanotechnology Council.

In his tenure at the University of New Mexico, Professor Krishna received the 2004 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, the 2005 School of Engineering Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the 2009 Sr. Research Excellence Award from the School of Engineering, a 2009 UNM Regents Lectureship and the 2010 UNM Teacher of the Year Award.

Professor Krishna has authored/co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 50 conference presentations, four book chapters and has ten issued patents.