Sayeef Salahuddin

Sayeef Salahuddin is the TSMC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He leads research in energy-efficient electronics, focusing on novel device physics for low-power devices, spintronics, and negative capacitance transistors. His work includes groundbreaking contributions such as the discovery of negative capacitance transistors enabling sub-kT/q power operation.

Salahuddin holds a B.Sc. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2003) and a Ph.D. from Purdue University (2007). He has been recognized with prestigious awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and IEEE Fellowships. He co-directs the Berkeley Device Modeling Center and the Berkeley Center for Negative Capacitance Transistors, and served on the IEEE Electron Devices Letters editorial board.

His research spans device modeling, nanomaterials synthesis, and emerging technologies like ferroelectric FETs and spin-orbit torque materials. Key areas include energy-efficient transistors, magnonics, and neuromorphic computing frameworks. Salahuddin’s labs pioneer innovations in ultra-low-power electronics and next-generation semiconductor technologies.