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Faculty
Dr. Rampi Ramprasad received his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1990. He obtained his M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering at the Washington State University in 1992, and his Ph.D. degree also in Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1997. After a post-doctoral stint at the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, he has been with Motorola's R&D laboratories at Tempe, AZ, as a Senior Staff Scientist from 1998-2001, and a Principal Staff Scientist from 2001-2004. He joined the Department of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2004. Dr. Ramprasad's main research interest lies in the areas of Computational Materials Science and Materials Theory of 0-d, 1-d and 2-d nanodielectrics for microelectronic, energy storage, and energy harvesting applications.. His research is funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI).
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