Rao Tummala
Pettit Chair Professor
Material Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
France
Biography
Dr. Rao Tummala is a Distinguished and an Endowed Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the Founding Director of an Engineering Research Center (ERC), originally funded by the NSF, called the Microsystems Packaging Research Center (PRC) pioneering the Second Law of Electronics (the first being Moore ’s Law) by his System-On-Package (SOP) vision. The PRC is currently the largest and most comprehensive micro-systems packaging research, education and industry collaboration Center involving 200 students and 15 faculty from ECE, ME, ChE and MSE departments, and 40 global companies from the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is also an Eminent scholar for the State of Georgia.
Research Interest
Functional Electronic and Optical Materials Nano materials and interfaces for digital, RF, optical, power, thermal Interconnection, components and systems integration for 3D electronic systems
