Thermal Management Research at Georgia Tech and Thermal Management Research at DARPA – Past, Present, and Looking Ahead
MIE Department Seminar
April 16, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago
Presenter: Yogendra Joshi, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: ERF 1043
Abstract: This talk will start with a brief overview of the speaker’s research at Georgia Tech, with a focus on one topic of growing interest. The rest of the talk will focus on activities at DARPA that have played a key role in enabling advances in thermal management of microsystems for the past three decades. Demand for innovative high performance, compact, energy efficient thermal technologies has mirrored the evolution of semiconductor devices for computing, communications, and optical applications. Some of the thermal technologies developed under DARPA support have already become commercial products. Many others have seen a period of inactivity, followed by subsequent resurgence of interest. This talk will provide an overview of the past DARPA thermal management programs, and their technical achievements. Current thermal management initiatives driven by three-dimensional heterogeneous integration will be described. A push towards ever smaller semiconductor device feature sizes requires multi-scale, multi-physics modeling tools. A new initiative in this area will be discussed. Emerging areas of interest will also be described.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Yogendra Joshi joined DARPA in July 2022 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). He is a professor and the John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology’s G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. In addition, he has a courtesy appointment at Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in multi-scale thermal management.
Joshi is the author or co-author of more than 450 publications in this area, including more than 225 journal articles. He received his Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1979, Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981, and doctorate in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has served as the principal investigator for multiple DARPA programs and for the Office of Naval Research-led Consortium for Optimally Resource-Secure Outposts. He also previously was site director for the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems.
Joshi is an elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IEEE. He’s been recognized for his contributions through several awards, including the Inventor Recognition Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2001), the IBM Faculty Award (2008), the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2011), the AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award (2018), and multiple other honors from IEEE and ASME.
Date posted
Apr 11, 2024
Date updated
Apr 11, 2024