Charanjit Bhatia

Charanjit S. Bhatia (F'15) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.,He was a Senior Technical Staff Member with the Advanced Magnetic Storage Laboratory, IBM's Storage Technology Division, San Jose, CA, USA. He was with IBM/Hitachi GST for approximately 30 years, and many ideas developed in the lab were commercialized under his leadership. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He has extensive experience in the area of solar cells and has successfully delivered on various solar projects. He has given many invited talks at the international symposia, conferences, and authored/co-authored more than 180 publications in refereed journals. ,Prof. Bhatia received the Outstanding Innovation and Achievement Awards from IBM Corporation for his work on IBM data storage products. He also received the IBM Faculty Award in 2008. He is a Fellow of ASME societies.