Karl Berggren named faculty head of electrical engineering in EECS

Karl K. Berggren, the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Teacher of Electric Design at MIT, has actually been called the brand-new professors head of electric design in the Division of Electric Design and Computer Technology (EECS), efficient Jan. 15.

” Karl’s remarkable interdisciplinary study incorporating electric design, physics, and products scientific research, paired with his experience collaborating with sector and federal government companies, makes him a suitable fit to head electric design. I’m positive electric design will certainly remain to expand under his management,” claims Anantha Chandrakasan, primary advancement and approach police officer, dean of design, and Vannevar Shrub Teacher of Electric Design and Computer Technology.

” Karl has actually made an extraordinary influence as a scientist and teacher over his 20 years in EECS. Pupils and professors associates commend his thoughtful method to training, and the treatment with which he managed the training laboratories in his previous function as undergraduate laboratory police officer for the division. He will certainly be an exceptional leader, bringing his enthusiasm for education and learning and collective spirit to this brand-new function,” includes Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman University of Computer and the Henry Ellis Warren Teacher of Electric Design and Computer Technology.

Berggren signs up with the management of EECS, which collectively reports to the MIT Schwarzman University of Computer and the Institution of Design. The biggest scholastic division at MIT, EECS was rearranged in 2019 as component of the development of the university right into 3 overlapping sub-units in electric design, computer technology, and expert system and decision-making. The restructuring has actually allowed each of the 3 sub-units to focus on professors employment, mentoring, promo, scholastic programs, and area structure in sychronisation with the others.

A participant of the EECS professors because 2003, Berggren has actually instructed a variety of topics in the division, consisting of Digital Communications, Circuits and Electronic Devices, Principles of Shows, Applied Quantum and Statistical Physics, Intro to EECS through Interconnected Installed Solution, Intro to Quantum Solution Design, and Intro to Nanofabrication. Prior to signing up with EECS, Berggren functioned as a team member at MIT Lincoln Research laboratory for 7 years. Berggren likewise preserves an energetic consulting technique and has experience collaborating with commercial and federal government companies.

Berggren’s present study concentrates on superconductive circuits, digital tools, single-photon detectors for quantum applications, and electron-optical systems. He heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Team, which establishes nanofabrication modern technology at the few-nanometer size range. The team makes use of these modern technologies to forge ahead of what is feasible with photonic and electric tools, concentrating on superconductive and free-electron tools.

Berggren has actually gotten various respected honors and honors throughout his job. Most just recently, he was called an MIT MacVicar Other in 2024. Berggren is likewise an other of the AAAS, IEEE, and the Kavli Structure, and a recipient of the 2015 Paul T. Forman Group Design Honor from the Optical Culture of America (currently Optica). In 2016, he got a Bose Fellowship and was likewise a recipient of the EECS division’s Frank Quick Advancement Fellowship and the Citizen (‘ 52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Honor for Quality in Training.

Berggren prospers Joel Voldman, that has actually acted as the inaugural electric design professors head because January 2020.

” Joel has actually remained in management duties because 2018, when he was called associate division head of EECS. I am deeply thankful to him for his indispensable payments to EECS because that time,” claims Asu Ozdaglar, MathWorks Teacher and head of EECS, that likewise acts as the replacement dean of the MIT Schwarzman University of Computer. “I anticipate collaborating with Karl currently and proceeding along the outstanding course we started in 2019.”