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GRC 2008 Inventor Recognition Awards

The Inventor Recognition Award was created in 1986 to increase awareness among researcher participants of the importance of technology transfer and intellectual property protection for increasing the competitiveness of member companies. In addition, cash awards are provided in appreciation for the cooperation of researcher participants in obtaining patent protection for inventions resulting from SRC university research programs. The creativity and innovation demonstrated by GRC-supported university researchers allow the semiconductor industry to overcome seemingly insurmountable technological challenges on an ongoing basis. Their creative contributions sustain the competitiveness of the semiconductor industry, and ultimately lead to prosperity and higher standards of living for our national and global economies.

In addition to sponsoring the research efforts of many talented university researchers, GRC recognizes and appreciates those researchers whose efforts lead to patentable inventions. While GRC sponsored patents are licensed non-exclusively to GRC member companies who sponsored the research, each patent is an intellectual asset ultimately owned by a researcher's university, which can represent a valuable source of licensing revenue to their academic institution. In addition, GRC university researchers benefit from the professional prestige and technical recognition bestowed upon those whose creative efforts are honored by an issued patent.

SRC acknowledges and rewards the creativity of the researcher participants and students named below. A number of current and former students are included in the list of Inventor Recognition Awards; they are marked with an asterisk.

Arizona State University
  • Lawrence Clark
  • Sayeed Badrudduza*
Carnegie Mellon University
  • Rob Rutenbar
  • Sonia Singhal*
  • Amith Singhee*
Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Andrei Fedorov
  • Tae Kim*
  • Madhavan Swaminathan
IBM
  • David Mann*
  • Ricardo Ruiz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Donghwan Ahn*
  • Yeon Sik Jung*
  • Caroline Ross
Purdue University
  • Jaydeep Kulkarni*
  • Hamid Mahmoodi*
  • Saibal Mukhopadhyay*
  • Kaushik Roy
Southern Methodist Univesity
  • Alexandru Fit-Florea*
  • Lun Li*
  • David Matula
Stanford University
  • Kenneth Goodson
  • Xuejiao Hu*
  • Matthew Panzer*
  • Olav Solgaard
  • Jen-Shiang Wang*
University at Albany
  • Eric Eisenbraun*
  • Kumar Sumit*
University of California/Berkeley
  • Peiran Gao*
  • Allan Gu*
  • Andrew Neureuther
  • Avideh Zakhor
University of California/Los Angeles
  • Lei He*
  • Hao Yu*
University of Texas/Austin
  • Sanjay Banerjee
  • Zhiheng Cao*
  • Minsik Cho*
  • David Z. Pan*
  • Shouli Yan
  • Peng Yu*
University of Virginia
  • Joe Campbell
University of Wisconsin
  • Kostas Daoulas
  • Francois Detcheverry*
  • Juan de Pablo
  • Shengxiang Ji*
  • Huiman Kang*
  • Paul Nealey
  • Mark Stoykovich*

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