Dr Arka Majumdar ('07) named 2020 Young Investigator by Office of Naval Research
IndiaWest (June 15, 2020)
Office of Naval Research Names Two Indian American Engineers as 2020 Young Investigators
Majumdar, of the University of Washington, was named ONR as a young investigator for his work, "NEO-PGA: Nonvolatile Electro-Optically Programmable Gate Array."
Majumdar is an assistant professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Washington at Seattle.
He received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2007, where he was honored with the President's Gold Medal, according to his bio.
Majumdar completed his master's degree (2009) and doctorate (2012) in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He spent one year at U.C. Berkeley (2012-13) and also at Intel Labs as a postdoc in Santa Clara, California (2013-14). (Read More)