BIOGRAPHY
Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti is the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of the School Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is also a professor in Harvard's Physics Department. He served as Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard from 2003-2006.
From 1992 to 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was Vice President of Research and exploratory technology at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., from 1987 to 1992.
He joined Bell Laboratories in 1968 as a member of the technical staff and became director of solid state electronics research in 1981. He has published widely in the areas of low temperature physics, superconductivity, semiconductor electronics, and photonics.
He is credited with developing the field of phonon optics: the manipulation of monoenergetic acoustic beams at terahertz frequencies. He is currently very active in the field of semiconductor nanostructures.
Narayanamurti is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Overt he years he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry. In addition to his duties as Dean and Professor, Narayanamurti lectures widely on solid state, computer, and communication technologies, and on the management of science, technology, and public policy.
Career Background
6 ½ years as Dean, College of Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara4 ½ years as Vice President of Research and Exploratory Technology, Sandia National Laboratories
19 years at Bell Laboratories; last post as Director of Solid State Electronics Research Laboratory
Education
Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell UniversityB.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from University of Delhi
Hobbies
His recreational loves are running, squash, and his cottage on Cape Cod, where he relaxes by reading, catching up on research, and listening to music.High-resolution photos
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