Eric Pop

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Eric Pop
Born
1975
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Fields Engineering
Thesis Self-heating and scaling of thin body transistors  (2004)
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Eric Pop is a Romanian engineer and academic at Stanford University, where he serves as Pease-Ye Professor in the School of Engineering. [1] He is a professor of electrical engineering, and, by courtesy, of materials science and engineering at Stanford. His research includes work on carbon nanotubes, [2] phase-change memory, [3] and nanotechnology. [4] In 2010, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. [5] [6] Pop is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher, [7] and has an entry in the 36th, 37th, and 38th editions of American Men and Women of Science . [lower-alpha 1]

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Early life and education

Pop was born in 1975, [8] and grew up in Romania, speaking both Romanian and Hungarian. He attended Emanuil Gojdu High School in Oradea, and competed in physics olympiads. After moving to the United States at the age of 17, he attended Santa Monica High School for 11th and 12th grades. [9]

In 1999, he completed three degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in physics, another in electrical engineering, and a Master of Engineering, also in electrical engineering. [1] At MIT, he was a member of the Romanian Student Association. [10] Pop continued by pursuing doctoral education at Stanford University. In 2004, [11] he defended his dissertation, [lower-alpha 2] and in 2005 he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. [1] He continued as a postdoctoral researcher under Hongjie Dai in Stanford’s chemistry department. [12]

Career

Immediately after his postdoctoral research, he joined Intel as a senior engineer, [13] where he worked from 2005 to 2007. [1] From 2007 to 2015, Pop was faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). [lower-alpha 3] [1] He joined the faculty of Stanford’s electrical engineering department in 2013. [14] Pop noted that the transition to a new institution was a slow process—he had to wait for his grants to be transferred over. [15] He has had a successful career at Stanford, where he is the inaugural Pease-Ye Professor, a position named for its endowers, Jun Ye and Caren Wang, and for Pop's relationship with R. Fabian Pease. He was appointed to the professorship in 2023. [16]

Research

Pop’s research combines the research fields of electronics, nanomaterials, and energy. He is the leader of the Pop Lab research group, and also holds an appointment in SystemX. [7] He has also been awarded multiple patents in affiliation with both UIUC and Stanford. [17]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gale   CX3677249034, CX7734147614, CX8010258624.
  2. ↑ Pop, Eric (December 2004). Self-heating and scaling of thin body transistors (Dissertation). Stanford University. OCLC   78678975. ProQuest   305391206.
  3. ↑ From 2013 to 2015, Pop's position was as an adjunct professor.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eric Pop" (Curriculum Vitae). March 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024– via Stanford University.
  2. ↑ Clarke, Peter (March 14, 2011). "Academics scale PCM with carbon nanotubes". EE Times . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Altered states". The Economist . August 30, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  4. ↑ Fox, Douglas (April 12, 2011). "Small is big: a cellphone chip that allows monthly battery charge". Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  5. ↑ Weiss, Rick (November 5, 2010). "President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists" (Press release). Office of Science and Technology Policy . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  6. ↑ Adderly, Shawn; Kubetz, Rick (November 8, 2010). "Pop receives Presidential Early Career Award". Electrical & Computer Engineering. UIUC . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Eric Pop". Stanford Profiles. Stanford University . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Pop, Eric". LC Linked Data Service. Library of Congress . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  9. ↑ Costea, Bogdan (January 13, 2011). "Eric Pop, de la Jules Verne la Barack Obama". Ziarul Timpul (in Romanian). Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Past members of RSA". MIT Romanian Student Association. Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  11. ↑ Pop, Eric (August 5, 2004). "Self-Heating and Scaling of Silicon Nano-Transistors" (PDF). Retrieved April 5, 2024– via nanoHUB.
  12. ↑ "Publications". Dai Laboratory. Stanford University . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  13. ↑ McNeely, Marie. "Dr. Eric Pop: Engineering Novel Solutions for Data Storage and Energy Management in Electronics". People Behind the Science (Podcast). Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  14. ↑ "Report of the President: Academic Council Professoriate appointments". Stanford University. April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  15. ↑ Bernstein, Rachel (September 23, 2014). "Managing a lab move". Careers. Science . doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1400232 . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  16. ↑ "Eric Pop appointed the inaugural Pease-Ye Professor". Electrical Engineering. Stanford University. February 13, 2023. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  17. ↑ "ERIC POP Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications". Justia Patents Search. Justia . Retrieved April 5, 2024.
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