News – Virginia Microelectronics Consortium

2023 VMEC Seed Grants Announced

May 11, 2023/in News/by Murty Polavarapu

VMEC is pleased to announce that the following two proposals have been selected for funding this year.

1) Ultralow-power straintronic switch implemented with a nanomagnet and a topological insulator for “processor in memory” architectures

Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University and Avik Ghosh, University of Virginia

2) Inter- and Intra-Array Thermal Cross-Talk in Stacks of Resistive RAM Memory Cells

Marius Orlowski, Virginia Tech; Hani Elsayed-Ali, Old Dominion University; and Hannes Schniepp, William & Mary

2023 Summer Scholars Named

May 11, 2023/in News/by Murty Polavarapu

VMEC is pleased to announce the selection of the following students from our participating educational institutions as VMEC Summer Scholars for 2023.

Scholar	University	Will be working at
Alison Aldrich	Old Dominion University	Micron Technology
Farhan Babar	George Mason University	BAE Systems
Joshua Blum	Virginia Commonwealth University	Virginia State University
Michaela Bochman	Old Dominion University	BAE Systems
Andrew Cash	George Mason University	Micron Technology
Grace Cha	William & Mary	Micron Technology
Vik Diederich	William & Mary	University of Virginia
Khang Diep	George Mason University	BAE Systems
Connor Grimberg	George Mason University	Micron Technology
Brian Janicki	William & Mary	Virginia Commonwealth University
Zhiang Jiao	University of Virginia	Virginia Commonwealth University
Elizabeth Kwari	George Mason University	Micron Technology
Bernadette Kwari	Virginia Commonwealth University	Micron Technology
William Mbandi	Old Dominion University	Virginia Tech
Robert Merriman	Virginia Commonwealth University	Norfolk State University
Jennifer Shern	University of Virginia	Norfolk State University
Kevin Su	William & Mary	George Mason University
Justin Sumrell	Old Dominion University	William & Mary

VMEC Leadership for 2023-2024 Year

May 10, 2023/in News/by Murty Polavarapu

As per bylaws, the current Vice Chair, Dr. Khan Iftekharuddin (Old Dominion University) will take over as VMEC Executive Committee Chair on July 1, 2023. The Executive Committee, at its meeting on January 18, 2023 elected Mr. Delbert Parks (Micron Technology) as Vice Chair and Dr. Scott Barker (University of Virginia) as Treasurer for the 2023-2024 year.