Speaker Name: Dr. Sumedh Risbud

Date: 21-10-2026 (Wednesday)

Time: 14:30

Venue: LC001

Abstract: Semiconductor manufacturing industry is the least appreciated "core industry" in Chemical Engineering. To the best of my knowledge, no Chemical Engineering Department around the World offers dedicated courses in Semiconductor Manufacturing. We will take a look at chip manufacturing from Chemical Engineering perspective and dive a bit deeper into the backbone of chip manufacturing, i.e., photolithography.

Bio: Dr. Sumedh Ratnakar Risbud is a Senior Neuromorphic Algorithms Scientist at the Neuromorphic Computing Lab at Intel, with over a decade-long experience in the company. He obtained his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University and did his postdoctoral research at MIT. He obtained his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT Bombay in Chemical Engineering.
He can be described as a Chemical Engineer with scientific and R&D expertise in mathematical modelling in general. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of Neuromorphic Computing, Statistical Physics, Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter Physics, Colloid and Interfacial Science, Protein Structure Analysis and Prediction, and a little bit of Computational Neuroscience.