Pourkamali, Siavash (EE, Nano)

Dr. Siavash Pourkamali is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Denver. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2001, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He joined the engineering faculty of the University of Denver in September 2006.

Prof. Pourkamali's current research interests are in the areas of Integrated Silicon NEMS and Nanosystems, Nanofabrication Technologies, Nanomechanical Resonant Sensors, and Nano-Robotics for Cellular and Molecular Biology.

Prof. Pourkamali is a 2006 recipient of Georgia Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering research excellence award, and 2005 Sigma-Xi best M.S. thesis award. He is also a silver medal winner in the 29th International Chemistry Olympiad (ICHO). He holds over five patents in the areas of silicon micro/nanomechanical resonators and filters and nanofabrication technologies.