Deep Jariwala

Associate Professor · University of Pennsylvania · company speakers →

Deep Jariwala is currently an Associate Professor (promoted in 2022) and Peter & Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He leads the Device Research and Engineering Laboratory. He received his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 2015 (advisors: Mark C. Hersam and Tobin J. Marks), followed by postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017 (with Harry A. Atwater). Professor Jariwala is an internationally renowned scholar in two-dimensional materials and nanoscale devices, with research spanning 2D semiconductor electronics, exciton photonics, ferroelectric memory, and low-power logic devices. He has published over 150 papers in journals including *Nature Materials* and *Nature Nanotechnology*, with more than 22,000 citations, and holds multiple U.S. patents. His honors include the 2024 Optica Adolph Lomb Medal, the 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2022 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, the 2022 Bell Labs Prize ($100,000), and the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science. He was elected an Optica Fellow in 2026 and serves as an Associate Editor for *Nano Letters*.

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