OCR Master Calendar - Select Centers + Engineering

3DHI - A Means to Continue Moore's Law

Apr 30, 2026   4:00 - 5:00 pm  
1002 Grainger Auditorium
Sponsor
Elyse Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Speaker
Madhavan Swaminathan, Ph.D. - Penn State University
Contact
Elyse Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
E-Mail
elyse@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Illinois ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series

Abstract:

Moore’s law has helped us for 5+ decades through monolithic integration and there have been debates and arguments that Moore’s law is now coming to an end. Meanwhile we have 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) taking front seat, with billions of dollars being invested in it. So, what has changed? Is 3DHI a means to continue Moore’s law? This talk will address several of these issues in the context of emerging applications, advanced packaging and systems. Ongoing research will be discussed during this presentation.

Bio:

Madhavan Swaminathan is the Department Head of Electrical Engineering and is the William E. Leonhard Endowed Chair at Penn State University. He also serves as the Director for the Center for Heterogeneous Integration of Micro Electronic Systems (CHIMES), an SRC JUMP 2.0 Center www.chimes.psu.edu. Prior to joining Penn State, he was the John Pippin Chair in Microsystems Packaging & Electromagnetics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Professor in ECE with a joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and Director of the 3D Systems Packaging Research Center (PRC) – a graduated NSF-Engineering Research Center (ERC), Georgia Tech (GT). Prior to GT, he was with IBM working on packaging for supercomputers. Prof. Swaminathan’s interdisciplinary research on semiconductor packaging and systems integration over the years have resulted in 650+ technical publications, 200+ invited presentations (seminars, keynotes, panels), 3 books, 5 book chapters, 31 patents, 35 best paper and student paper awards, 5 GT awards, 2 start-ups, and several international recognitions with the recent one being the 2024 IEEE Rao R. Tummala Electronics Packaging Award (highest technical field award in packaging) for “contributions to semiconductor packaging and system integration technologies that improve the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of electronic systems”. He is also the founder of the IEEE Conference on Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems (EDAPS), a premier conference sponsored by the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and has served as the Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) society. He serves as an advisor to India Semiconductor Mission, member of External Advisory Board for Move2THz (an EU initiative), and is on the advisory board of 3DGS and Claros. 

He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, USA.

 

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