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Pragya Kushwaha

INSPIRE Faculty, Senior Scientific Officer

Artificial Intelligence of Things Fab Lab (AIOT)

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

pragya@iitj.ac.in


Sponsored Projects

Sub-5nm Semiconductor Device Investigation and Compact Model Development, funded by INSPIRE Research Grant from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (ongoing)

Running Projects

Establishment of Class 100 clean room facility for AIOT Fab lab, funded by RISL, JCKIF and IIT Jodhpur (ongoing)


Work Experience

Senior Scientific Officer, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India
October 2023 - Current
Scientist SD, Space Application Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, India
July 2020 - October 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
October 2016 - February 2020

Education

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
December 2011 - October 2016
M.Tech., Panjab University, Chandigarh
2009 - 2011
B.Tech., Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow
2005 - 2009

Awards

2022: Invited speaker from Women in Electron Device Society (WiEDS) in IEEE ICEE

Conference 2022 at Bangalore, India

2021: IEEE Senior Member

2020: IEEE EDS compact modeling committee technical member

2020: Selected for prestigious Ramanujan fellowship 2020 by SERB, Department of Science

and Technology, India

2019: Awarded INSPIRE faculty fellowship 2019 by INSPIRE, Department of Science and

Technology, India

2019: First Indian Women Recipient of IEEE EDS Early Career Award 2019

 

2018: Appeared in IEEE Electron Device Society golden list of reviewers.

2018: Invited Speaker in Workshop on Compact Modeling, Anaheim, USA.

2017: Research work is highlighted by IEEE Women in Engineering Society.

2015: Travel grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST) for IEEE DRC conference.

2014: Best paper award in IEEE India conference (INDICON), Pune, India, Dec. 2014.

2013: Best paper award in IEEE Prime Asia Conference, Visakhapatnam, Dec. 2013.

2011: Gold medal for academic excellence in M.tech Microelectronics at Panjab University,

Chandigarh, India.

2010: Best Student Award in IEEE ICAER'10 conference, U.I.E.T Chandigarh, India.


Book Publications

"Industry Standard FDSOI Compact Model BSIM-IMG for IC Design", Link


Research Publications

Journals

[1]   P. Kushwaha et.al., "Impact of BB84 QKD Transmitter's Parameter Mismatch on Secure Key Generation Rate", Photonic Network Communications Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-023-01010-3, Feb 2024 (Link).

[2]   M. S. Nazir, A. Pampori, R. Dangi, P. Kushwaha, E. Yadav, S. Sinha, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Characterization and Modeling of Drain Lag using a Modified RC Network in the ASM-HEMT Framework", Solid State Electronics, Vol. 199, art. no. 108490, January 2023.

[3]   M. S. Nazir, P. Kushwaha, A. Pampori, S. A. Ahsan, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Electrical Characterization and Modeling of GaN HEMTs at Cryogenic Temperatures", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 69, Issue 11, November 2022.

[4]   Girish Pahwa, Pragya Kushwaha, Avirup Dasgupta, Sayeef Salahuddin, and Chenming Hu, "Compact Modeling of Temperature Effects in FDSOI and FinFET Devices Down to Cryogenic Temperatures", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Accepted July 2021.

[5]   P. Kushwaha, A. Dasgupta, M.-Y. Kao, H. Agarwal, S. Salahuddin, C. Hu, "Design Optimization Techniques in Nanosheet Transistor for RF Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 67, Issue 10, 2020.

[6]   Dasgupta, S. S. Parihar, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, Y. S. Chauhan and C. Hu, "Compact Model for Geometry Dependent Mobility in Nanosheet FETs", IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2020.

[7]   A. Dasgupta, S. S. Parihar, P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, M.-Y. Kao, S. Salahuddin, Y. S. Chauhan and C. Hu, "BSIM Compact Model for Quantum Confinement in Advanced Nanosheet FETs", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (Early access), 2020.

[8]   P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, Y. Lin, A. Dasgupta, M. Kao, Y. Lu, Y. Yue, X. Chen, J. Wang, W. Sy, F. Yang, P. C. Chidambaram, S. Salahuddin, C. Hu, “Characterization and Modeling of Flicker Noise in FinFETs at Advanced Technology node”, in IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol 40, no 6, pp. 985-988, doi 10.1109/LED.2019.2911614, ISSN 0741-3106, June, 2019.

[9]   H. Agarwal, C. Gupta, R. Goel, P. Kushwaha, Y.-Kai Lin, M.-Yen Kao, J. P. Duarte, H.-Lin Chang, Y. S. Chauhan, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “BSIM-HV: High Voltage MOSFET Model Including Quasi-Saturation and Self-Heating Effect”, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, June 2019.

[10]Y-Kai Lin, H. Agarwal, M-Yen Kao, J. Zhou, Y.-Hung Liao, A. Dasgupta, P. Kushwaha, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “Spacer Engineering in Negative Capacitance FinFETs” in IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1009-1012, doi: 10.1109/LED.2019.2911104, June 2019.

[11]M.-Yen Kao, Y.-Kai Lin, H. Agarwal, Y.-Hung Liao, P. Kushwaha, A. Dasgupta, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “Optimization of NCFET by Matching Dielectric and Ferroelectric Non-uniformly along the Channel” in IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 822-825, May 2019. doi: 10.1109/LED.2019.2906314

[12]Y.-Kai Lin, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, M.-Yen Kao, Y.-Hung Liao, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “Analysis and Modeling of Inner Fringing Field Effect on Negative Capacitance FinFETs” in IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 2023-2027, doi: 10.1109/TED.2019.2899810, April 2019.

[13]H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, Y.-Kai Lin, M.-Yen Kao, Y.-Hung Liao, A. Dasgupta, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “Proposal for Capacitance Matching in Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors,” in IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 463-466, doi: 10.1109/LED.2019.2891540, March 2019.

[14]D. Rajasekharan, P. Kushwaha, S. S. Chauhan, and Y. S. Chauhan, “Non-Boolean Associative Processing using FDSOI MOSFET-based Inverter,” in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2018 (Link)

[15]M.-Y. Kao, A. Sachid, Y.-K. Lin, Yu-H. Liao, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, J. P. Duarte, H.-L. Chang, S. Salahuddin and C. Hu, “Variation Caused by Spatial Distribution of Dielectric and Ferroelectric Grains in a Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistor ” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2018.

[16]H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, Y.-K. Lin, M.-Y. Kao, Yu-H. Liao, J. P. Duarte, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, “NCFET Design Considering Maximum Interface Electric Field,” in IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2018. (Link)

[17]P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, Y.-K. Lin, M.-Y. Kao, J. P. Duarte, H.-L. Chang, W. Wong, X. J. Fan, Y. S. Chauhan, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, Modeling of Advanced RF Bulk FinFETs, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 791 to 794, doi:10.1109/LED.2018.2825422, 2018.(Link)

[18]H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, J. P. Duarte, Y.-K. Lin, A. Sachid, M.-Y. Kao, H.-L. Chang, S. Salahuddin and C. Hu, “Engineering Negative Differential Resistance in NCFETs for Analog Applications”  IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2018. (Link)

[19]H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, J. P. Duarte, Y.-K. Lin, A. Sachid, M.-Y. Kao, H.-L. Chang, S. Salahuddin and C. Hu, "Designing 0.5V 5nm HP and 0.23V 5nm LP NC-FinFETs with Improved Ioff Sensitivity in Presence of Parasitic Capacitance," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 2018. (Link)

[20]A. K. Dabhi, A. Dasgupta, P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, C. Hu, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Modeling of Induced Gate Thermal Noise including Back Bias Effect in FD-SOI MOSFET", IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, 2018. (Accepted)

[21]Yen-Kai Lin, Pragya Kushwaha, Juan Pablo Duarte, Huan-Lin Chang, Harshit Agarwal, Sourabh Khandelwal, Angada Sachid, Michael Harter, Josef Watts, Yogesh S. Chauhan, Sayeef Salahuddin, and Chenming Hu, "New Mobility Model for Accurate Modeling of Transconductance in FDSOI MOSFETs," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 2018. [Link]

[22]Yen-Kai Lin, Pragya Kushwaha, Harshit Agarwal, Huan-Lin Chang, Juan Pablo Duarte, Angada Sachid, Sourabh Khandelwal, Sayeef Salahuddin, and Chenming Hu, "Modeling of Back-Gate Effects on Gate-Induced Drain Leakage and Gate Currents in UTBSOI MOSFETs," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 3986–3990, Oct. 2017. [Link]

[23]Yen-Kai Lin, Juan Pablo Duarte, Pragya Kushwaha, Harshit Agarwal, Huan-Lin Chang, Angada Sachid, Sayeef Salahuddin, and Chenming Hu, "Compact Modeling Source-to-Drain Tunneling in Sub-10nm GAA FinFET with Industry Standard Model," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 3576–3581, Sep. 2017. [Link]

[24]Y. Sahu, P. Kushwaha, A. Dasgupta, C. Hu, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Compact Modeling of Drain Current Thermal Noise in FDSOI MOSFETs Including Back-Bias Effect", in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol 65, issue 7, pp. 2261-2270, July 2017.

[25]P. Kushwaha, S. Khandelwal, J. P. Duarte, C. Hu, Y. S. Chauhan, "RF Modeling of FDSOI Transistors Using Industry Standard BSIM-IMG Model," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-7, 2016. link

[26]P. Kushwaha, B. Krishna K, H. Agarwal , S. Khandelwal, J. P. Duarte, C. Hu, Y. S. Chauhan, “Geometrically Scalable Thermal Resistance Model for FDSOI Transistors”, Volume 56, Pages 171-176, Microelectronics Journal, 2016.

[27]P. Kushwaha, A. Dasgupta, Y. Sahu, S. Khandelwal, C. Hu and Y. S. Chauhan , “Characterization of High Frequency Noise of 8 nm thin FDSOI MOSFET for 1-18 GHz”, in IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society, 2016.

[28]A. K. Kompala, P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, S. Khandelwal, J. P. Duarte, C. Hu and Y. S. Chauhan., “Modeling of Nonlinear Thermal Resistance in FinFETs”, in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2016.

[29]S. Khandelwal, H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, J. P. Duarte, A. Medury, Y. S. Chauhan, S. Salahuddin, and C. Hu, "Unified Compact Model Covering Drift-Diffusion to Ballistic Carrier Transport",  IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 2, Feb. 2016

[30]H. Agarwal, P. Kushwaha, C. Gupta, S. Khandelwal, C. Hu, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Analysis and Modeling of Flicker Noise in Lateral Asymmetric Channel MOSFETs", Solid State Electronics, Vol. 115, Part A, Jan. 2016.

[31]P. Kushwaha, N. Paydavosi, S. Khandelwal, C. Yadav, H. Agarwal, J. P.   Duarte,  C. Hu, Y. S. Chauhan,  “Modeling the Impact of Substrate Depletion in FDSOI MOSFETs” in Solid State Electronics, Vol. 104, Issue 2, Feb. 2015.

[32]H. Agarwal, C. Gupta, P. Kushwaha, C. Yadav, J. P. Duarte, S. Khandelwal, C. Hu, and Y. S. Chauhan, "Analytical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Threshold Voltage in BSIM6 MOSFET Model", IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society, Vol. 3, Issue 3, March 2015.

[33]C. Yadav, P. Kushwaha, S. Khandelwal, J. P. Duarte, Y. S. Chauhan, and C. Hu, "Modeling of GaN based Normally-off FinFET", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 6, June 2014.

 


Conferences

[1]   Y. Machhiwar, P. Kushwaha, H. Agarwal, “Optimization of Source/Drain-epi Region Height in GAA Nanosheet FET for RF Applications”, 2024 IEEE Device Research Conference, June 2024 (accepted).

[2]   M. H. Ansari, R. Dangi, A. Pampori, P. Kushwaha, E. Yadav, S. Sinha, and Y. S. Chauhan, "A Width-Scalable SPICE Model of GaN-HEMTs for X-band RF Applications", IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2023. 

 


 

Non-Technical Publications

2023: Poem selected in SAC ISRO Home Magazine.

 

2021: Article selected in SAC ISRO Home Magazine.

 


 

Awarded Paintings


 

Singing Participation