Omkaram Nalamasu
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Dr. Omkaram(om) Nalamasu is Vice president of Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
This is what is said on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's website: "Dr. Nalamasu received his B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Osmania University, India, in 1978, his M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Hyderabad, India, in 1980, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1986.
Before joining Rensselaer in 2002, Nalamasu held several key research and development leadership positions in AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, and Agere Systems in Murray Hill, N.J. He previously served as director of Bell Laboratories' Nanofabrication Research Laboratory in Murray Hill. At Bell Labs and Agere, Nalamasu was a representative to the SEMATECH Lithography Technical Working Group, Focus Technical Advisory Board, and Resist Advisory Groups.
In 2003, Nalamasu received the NYSTAR (New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research) Distinguished Professor Award along with a $1 million grant from the Faculty Development Program. Nalamasu has earned several other prestigious awards, including the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Award for Team Innovation for the Invention and Innovation of 193 nm (nanometer) Resist Material in 2000 and Japan's Photopolymer Science and Technology Award in 1998. He and his technical team also won an R&D 100 Award for Invention, Development, and Commercialization of the first Deep-UV (ultraviolet) Chemically Amplified Photoresist (CAMP) in 1997.
Nalamasu has published more than 170 papers, review articles, and book chapters; he has received eleven patents and edited two books. He also has organized and presented several invited and plenary talks at national and international conferences, including one by invitation for the National Academy of Engineering's 4th Annual Symposium on the Frontiers of Engineering in 1998.
In addition to his Rensselaer center directorship, Nalamasu is the chief technical officer of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium, a public/private nonprofit enterprise he co-founded to foster nanotechnology partnerships across academia, industry, and government.
Nalamasu's primary research interests are in the areas of nanotechnology, nanopatterning, electronic and photonic materials, and lithography with special emphasis on applying patterning and materials know-how for device fabrication. He is also interested in MEMs technology and its utility in combination with nanotechnology for developing novel sensors and devices.
Nalamasu has made seminal contributions to the fields of optical lithography and polymeric materials science and technology. His pioneering contributions to optical lithography and photoresist materials science and technology have played a major role in enabling the microelectronics revolution, especially where this technology helped extend the boundaries of optical lithography for patterning sub-100 nm design rule devices. His contributions to the fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationships between molecular structure of resist components and their relation to resist properties, as well as his contributions to resist materials chemistry and process development have played a defining role in identifying novel resist materials and chemistries required for implementation of deep-UV, 193 nm, and e-beam lithographic technologies."
Nalamasu recent achievements include the plan to build the CCNI, the largest university based supercomputer, at RPI.
Sources RPI.EDU- Rensselaer's website
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