Suraj S. Cheema
Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Materials Sciences and Engineering ( Department of)
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Room 13-5034
Cambridge, MA 02139
Suraj Cheema is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and is a Principal Investigator in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. His research explores ferroelectric materials and devices to discover new paradigms of energy-efficient computing and energy-autonomous technologies towards more sustainable microelectronics. His approach focuses on the atomic-scale design of materials already in modern microelectronics to engineer unprecedented electronic properties and to accelerate the translation of next-generation electronic devices, spanning ultralow power logic transistors to ultrahigh energy storage capacitors.
Suraj previously interned with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and completed his PhD and postdoc from UC Berkeley in the MSE and EECS department, respectively, and his BS from Columbia University in the Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics department, where he was awarded the Francis Rhodes Prize. Suraj also received the APS Greene Dissertation Award in experimental condensed matter physics, the MRS Graduate Student Gold Award, the top-five DARPA Riser Award, and is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and UC Chancellor’s Fellow.