Invited Speaker

Jayakanth Ravichandran

University of Southern California

Jayakanth Ravichandran is an Associate Professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science with courtesy appointment in Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California. He holds the Philip and Cayley MacDonald endowed early career chair. He serves as a co-director of the Core Center of Excellence in Nano Imaging (CNI) and as the PI of the Army Research Office MURI program. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of California, Berkeley in 2011. He performed post-doctoral research at Columbia University and briefly at Harvard University, before joining USC in 2015 as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in materials design, synthesis, characterization, and physical properties of complex materials for electronic, photonic, and energy applications. His honors include the 2020 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award, and 2017 Early Career Scholar in Materials Science by the Journal of Materials Research.

Jayakanth Ravichandran