BIO
Sandip Tiwari, an electrical engineer and computer scientist, is Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering, Emeritus at Cornell University (United States), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. A former director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, now the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), he has been a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), as well as Michigan, Columbia, Stanford and Harvard universities, and was a founding editor of Transactions on Nanotechnology. His research interest lies in electrosciences, in particular the confluence of physics at nanoscale, devices, circuit architectures, and information mechanics, as well as in mathematical engineering and physics applied to open systems problems. Among his other concerns is science’s role as a means to alleviate poverty and aid development. His distinctions include the Cledo Brunetti Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
