Imagine if Nigeria had a platform for these intellectual titans to contribute to the technological devt of this great nation and continent.
Many of these people are steve jobs,larry page,bill gates in the making.
Lord have mercy.

Kelvin Okafor (the techy artist)

Artist Kelvin Okafor (@KOkaforart), whose accurate drawings are often mistaken for photographs, is making waves in the art world after scooping a number of national awards and exhibiting at galleries across the country.

The Middlesex University Fine Art graduate spends around 80-100 hours to complete his amazing pencil drawings over approximately three weeks in the studio. The genre is known as ‘photo-realism’ and Kelvin creates his detailed work based on a mixture of life and photographs.

The highly skilled 27-year old has already had more than 50 commissions and is generating a buzz at galleries he exhibits at and online. One of his recent accolades, The Catherine Petitgas Visitors’ Choice Prize part of the National Open Art Competition, was awarded to Kelvin after he received the most votes from the public. Kelvin has also recently been selected as one of the top two pieces of work in Cork Street Gallery Open Exhibition Winter Show.

Okafor also attended St Ignatius College, a prestigious Jesuit school in Enfield.

YouTube Channel
Flickr Photostream

Where are the records?
John Dabiri alone is greater than everyone that you posted, academically.
the bigoted troll Jakumo also joined his flatheaded akpus brothers

abeg go sidon for corner jor
yoruba is still number one in engineering
check all the top engineering schools in america.

Nice. We should all get busy.

those are the kind of people we want back in nigeria...they shud come n work selflessly 4 d development of nigeria....


They have the opportunity now,when their brother is the president of nigerial

Chris-OD:
Kelvin Okafor (the techy artist)

Artist Kelvin Okafor (@KOkaforart), whose accurate drawings are often mistaken for photographs, is making waves in the art world after scooping a number of national awards and exhibiting at galleries across the country.

The Middlesex University Fine Art graduate spends around 80-100 hours to complete his amazing pencil drawings over approximately three weeks in the studio. The genre is known as ‘photo-realism’ and Kelvin creates his detailed work based on a mixture of life and photographs.

The highly skilled 27-year old has already had more than 50 commissions and is generating a buzz at galleries he exhibits at and online. One of his recent accolades, The Catherine Petitgas Visitors’ Choice Prize part of the National Open Art Competition, was awarded to Kelvin after he received the most votes from the public. Kelvin has also recently been selected as one of the top two pieces of work in Cork Street Gallery Open Exhibition Winter Show.

Okafor also attended St Ignatius College, a prestigious Jesuit school in Enfield.

YouTube Channel
Flickr Photostream

This guy is kind of a genuis though.

''Social Technologist''


Grace Ihejiamaizu

In 2012 The U.S. Department of State selected Grace Ihejiamaizu as September’s State Alumni Member of the Month in recognition of her dedication to developing Nigeria’s next generation of leaders. Ihejiamaizu participated in the 2010 Study of the United States Institute for Student Leaders (SUSI) Program on the theme of Social Entrepreneurship. She has since applied these entrepreneurial concepts in Nigeria by founding an after-school youth program.

Ihejiamaizu’s SUSI experience allowed her to examine how business techniques and entrepreneurial skills can be used to address social issues. Motivated by this knowledge and following her passion to help young people, Ihejiamaizu returned to Nigeria and launched Raising Young and Productive Entrepreneurs (RYPE). This after-school youth development program offers skills trainings, internship placements, volunteer activities, and a peer mentoring club to educate, engage, and empower Nigerian youth to become leaders and entrepreneurs. Since its inception in 2011, RYPE’s has reached more than 150 Nigerian youth.

As a young social entrepreneur, Ihejiamaizu has already won considerable national and international recognition. In 2010, Ihejiamaizu was recognized by SIFE Nigeria, for her Outstanding Contribution towards a Better Society. In 2011, she was named one of Google’s 12 Brightest Young Minds in the World and was invited to attend Google’s prestigious event, Zeitgeist Minds 2011. Also in 2011, Grace won a grant from the Young African Women Leaders Forum Small Grants Program in support of her RYPE initiative. Most recently, she was one of 60 young people selected from more than 2000 applications to attend the British Council’s Global Changemakers event.

Last month she was listed as Africa’s Top 30 Most Inspirational Young People. She has just started a Social Enterprise company, iKapture Networks, which provides educational services and products to secondary and post-secondary students in Nigeria.She is also the founder and content creator of the fast-growing online platform, opportunitydesk.org, with more than 100,000 visitors monthly from over 160 countries across the world.

Sources: US State Department, Youth Village Africa.

girliegal: Where are the records?
John Dabiri alone is greater than everyone that you posted, academically.
the bigoted troll Jakumo also joined his flatheaded akpus brothers

abeg go sidon for corner jor
yoruba is still number one in engineering
check all the top engineering schools in america.

yoruba,number one in engineering?
You must be high on ekiti weed.

Chris-OD:


Hey Buddie,

This is not for intellectually challenged midgets like you. So buzz offffff!!!!!

I agree, but you aren't any where close to being intellectual at all. Your friends are busy making exploits out there, you are here posting trash. Goofball, get a life.

4 UNN people on this list. Two Lecturers and Two students who happened to have graduated from the agbebi school of Engineering like Myself. You guys should watch out for me...

Btw F.Okeke should be P.N okeke's wife or a Relation..That family has physics Running through dia short veins.

U235weapongrade: 4 UNN people on this list. Two Lecturers and Two students who happened to have graduated from the agbebi school of Engineering like Myself. You guys should watch out for me...

Btw F.Okeke should be P.N okeke's wife or a Relation..That family has physics Running through dia short veins.

Nice!!! Please post more that you know. The only criterion is 50 years and below.

I-pledge:
those are the kind of people we want back in nigeria...they shud come n work selflessly 4 d development of nigeria....


They have the opportunity now,when their brother is the president of nigerial

True.
We need these set of highly-skilled individuals back.
The FG have to draw them back one way or the other.

k2039:
I agree, but you aren't any where close to being intellectual at all. Your friends are busy making exploits out there, you are here posting trash. Goofball, get a life.

You really don't have any business in this thread.

solomon111: True.
We need these set of highly-skilled individuals back.
The FG have to draw them back one way or the other.

They don't have to come back fully. They can operate from where they are and visit regularly as resource persons.

U235weapongrade: 4 UNN people on this list. Two Lecturers and Two students who happened to have graduated from the agbebi school of Engineering like Myself. You guys should watch out for me...

Btw F.Okeke should be P.N okeke's wife or a Relation..That family has physics Running through dia short veins.

yes,she is P.N okeke's wife.
Their family is an assembly of physics and mathematics prodigies.

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yemi Adesokan, Nigerian scientist, wins MIT's World Top Young Innovators Award





While several young Nigerians are busy complaining their country has not done anything for them, 35- year- old US- based Nigerian born researcher, Yemi Adesokan, has put his country's name on the map of nations of innovation.

Adesokan's discovery which has potential to change the way mankind responds to disease pathogens, according to experts, may bring an end the era of increased burden of drug resistance in the world particularly, in sub Saharan Africa.

When he moved to United States in 1996, little did the young innovator have realise that he was going to rub shoulders with some of the greatest names in scientific technology.

But today, Adesokan who has been listed by Technology Review, an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) USA. as one of the TR35 Award of the 2011 World top innovators. Past recipients have included Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Konstantin Novoselev (later a Nobel Laureate in Physics).

Adesokan is being so specially honoured for his work in the application of next generation sequencing to clinical diagnostics. Adesokan, who is also the founder of Pathogenica Inc., was selected as a member of the TR35 class of 2011 by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, who evaluated more than 300 nominations.

By this recognition, he will be joining other TR35 honorees in discussing their achievements at the Emtech MIT 2011 conference, taking place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, October 18 to 19, 2011.

In this chat with Chioma Obinna, he speaks on the award and the benefits of his innovation in the diagnostics world.

Excerpts:

What it is all about

This work is being carried out by a biotechnology startup that I founded with Prof George Church of Harvard Medical School DNA technology. The Pathogenica's test kits are able to identify the presence, allowing for physicians to screen for multiple diseases with accurate results and a rapid turnaround.

I founded pathogenica with genomics pioneer and Harvard Prof George Church in 2009 in order to commercilaise applications of pathogen sequencing.

Sequencing technologies have improved a million – fold in the past seven years, bringing scientists a wealth of individual genomics and the key now is to employ the data to improve clinical practice. The DNA sequence of each individual or organism is unique, and is the most detailed signature for identification.

This year marks one decade since the completion of the Human Genome Project, a three billion-dollar effort to sequence a human genome.

A major issue in Nigeria today, is that some sterilised water may contain harmful pathogens. The technology is useful in screening a range of pathogens in water, livestock (poultry, etc.), and in food manufacturing. The key point for this technology is its high multiple. As it scales up, we actually see a reduction in price.

With the innovation, the cost of DNA sequencing has dropped more than 40,000_fold since that time to just $5,000 today. The price continues to drop. We are applying this fast, inexpensive technology in a unique way to improve routine clinical diagnostics.

Impact on clinical practice

The utility of the innovation in clinical practice lies in the low error rate, thereby reducing the number of inaccurate diagnoses due to false positives or the emergence of drug resistance mutations undetected by current methods. This reduces the occurrence of patient mortality (death) due to misdiagnosed infections.

In addition, the technology does not require cultures as samples. Tuberculosis (TB) samples can take over one week to culture. We can demonstrate diagnostic results in a single day. This would reduce the spread of Tuberculosis In the case of HPV, which causes cervical cancer and other types of cancers, this technology can be used for detection with a very low occurrence of error. The error rate is very low.

Plans to bring it to Nigeria

We are very interested in finding partners in the Nigerian private and public sectors, particularly as TB is not an issue in the US market. We plan to visit Nigeria around November to give some presentations on the utility of our technology, particularly in the case of drug-resistant infections.

TR35 Award

The TR35 award is presented each year to 35 innovators under the age of 35 whose "accomplishments are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world. The TR35 recognises the world's top innovators, spanning energy, medicine, computing, communications, nanotechnology, and other emerging fields.

It is given by MIT's Technology Review Magazine. Needless to say, Technology Review has an excellent track record in predicting innovative technologies. Pathogenica, Inc., was selected for this award based on my work on the development of fast DNA sequencing technologies for clinical diagnostics.

Nigerian government and Research

I think more can be done, especially in encouraging young innovators. The establishment of technology incubators to nurture and fund young companies would be a good starting point. There is need for the government to send science and technology representatives to scout out new innovations worldwide, and encourage private sector venture capitalists to invest in local technology innovation.

Chris-OD:


They don't have to come back fully. They can operate from where they are and visit regularly as resource persons.

Many of them are already doing so.
But it would be better if they actually do their work in the country.

solomon111: yoruba,number one in engineering?
You must be high on ekiti weed.

You go hear am now.
we will create the yoruba version of the thread to shut you loud mouthed fools up.

who better pass John Dabiri and Yemi Adesokan for una list?

Lets' not forget Ngozi Okonjo Iweala kids, all four of them Harvard trained. They need to start (if not already doing so) putting that training into practical use like the ones listed here.

John Dabiri

ohn Dabiri (born 1980) is an American biophysicist and professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory,[1] which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation.
In 2010, Dabiri was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his theoretical engineering work.[2] He established the Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (FLOWE) in 2011, a wind farm which investigates the energy exchange in an array of vertical-axis wind turbines. His honors include a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and [size=14pt]being named as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008[/size]. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its 2012 Technology Innovators

Dabiri returned to Caltech for graduate school after graduating Princeton with a B.S.E. summa cum laude. He was a finalist for both the Rhodes Scholarship and the Marshall Scholarship. He has been awarded NSF research grants eight times in five different fields. He is currently a highly regarded professor at Caltech.

..

girliegal:

You go hear am now.
we will create the yoruba version of the thread to shut you loud mouthed fools up.

who better pass John Dabiri and Yemi Adesokan for una list?

shut up and get lost.
What do you know?
You are probably still writing jamb.
Small girl.

Nigeria's Tope Folarin, winner of the 2013 Caine Prize.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Tope Folarin wins top prize for African Writing
His short story, "Miracle," is a semi-autobiographical look at the Nigerian diaspora
The prize includes $15,000 and a position as Writer-in-Residence
(CNN) -- Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has been announced as the winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. The U.S.-based author scooped the accolade -- which has been described as Africa's leading literary award -- for his short story "Miracle," a tale of faith and deceit in an evangelical Nigerian church in Texas.
"Winning feels tremendous -- I still can't believe it," enthused the 31-year-old author. "I feel like I'm walking on air."
Folarin spent a year writing the story, which explores the relationship between a blind pastor-prophet and his faithful congregation. "It's a community I know quite well," he explained. "'Miracle' does have an autobiographical quality to it, because the dreams and desires described are ones I share as a writer in the Nigerian diaspora."
Watch this: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cries over praise
Turning Nigeria's civil war into fiction 'Fearless' writer cries over praise
The Washington D.C.-based author, who was born and raised in the U.S. but lived in Nigeria for a year, said that fellow members of the community had responded well to his story. But striking the right tone had its challenges. "I spent a long time trying to get a particular voice down, and that was the greatest technical difficulty I had when writing the novel," Folarin said.
"Watching Woody Allen's 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' -- where a movie star walks off screen and into real life -- helped me to define that voice, and introduce the narrator's transition from using 'we' to 'I'."
Teen wins 'Nobel Prize for Children'
Gus Chaseley-Hayford, chair of judges for the prize, described Folarin's winning prose as a "superb Caine Prize winner -- a delightful and beautifully paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling."
The decision was announced at the 14th Caine Prize ceremony, held Monday night at Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where Folarin beat his four fellow shortlisted candidates. Three of the other contenders were Nigerian, as was last year's prize winner, Rotimi Babatunde.
"I know that myself and other Nigerian writers have been empowered by a long tradition of Nigerian authors writing beautifully," said Folarin. "At times when we're struggling to write, we derive great power from the work that has come before us."
I know that myself and other Nigerian writers have been empowered by a long tradition of Nigerian authors writing beautifully
Tope Folarin
Folarin has previously received literary fellowships from The Institute for Policy Studies and the journal "Callalloo," as well as studying for two Master's degrees at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. His Caine Prize win means he is eligible to take up a month's tenure as Writer-in-Residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University, which he plans to begin before the end of the year.
Describing himself as a "savings freak," Folarin has no grand plans for his £10,000 ($14,840) prize fund as yet, but his future literary plans are more defined. "'Miracle' is part of a manuscript I've been working on for three years, which ties together a number of novels through a single lead protagonist," he divulged.
"I hope to get that published at some stage in the future, but my main focus right now is just being the best writer I can be.
"Nothing else matters to me."

girliegal: John Dabiri

ohn Dabiri (born 1980) is an American biophysicist and professor of aeronautics and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory,[1] which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation.
In 2010, Dabiri was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his theoretical engineering work.[2] He established the Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (FLOWE) in 2011, a wind farm which investigates the energy exchange in an array of vertical-axis wind turbines. His honors include a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and [size=14pt]being named as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008[/size]. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its 2012 Technology Innovators

Dabiri returned to Caltech for graduate school after graduating Princeton with a B.S.E. summa cum laude. He was a finalist for both the Rhodes Scholarship and the Marshall Scholarship. He has been awarded NSF research grants eight times in five different fields. He is currently a highly regarded professor at Caltech.

So this is what is making you to foam in the mouth?
Very impressive achievement,but it is not uncommon.
Try harder.

Yorubest: Nigeria's Tope Folarin, winner of the 2013 Caine Prize.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Tope Folarin wins top prize for African Writing
His short story, "Miracle," is a semi-autobiographical look at the Nigerian diaspora
The prize includes $15,000 and a position as Writer-in-Residence
(CNN) -- Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has been announced as the winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. The U.S.-based author scooped the accolade -- which has been described as Africa's leading literary award -- for his short story "Miracle," a tale of faith and deceit in an evangelical Nigerian church in Texas.
"Winning feels tremendous -- I still can't believe it," enthused the 31-year-old author. "I feel like I'm walking on air."
Folarin spent a year writing the story, which explores the relationship between a blind pastor-prophet and his faithful congregation. "It's a community I know quite well," he explained. "'Miracle' does have an autobiographical quality to it, because the dreams and desires described are ones I share as a writer in the Nigerian diaspora."
Watch this: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cries over praise
Turning Nigeria's civil war into fiction 'Fearless' writer cries over praise
The Washington D.C.-based author, who was born and raised in the U.S. but lived in Nigeria for a year, said that fellow members of the community had responded well to his story. But striking the right tone had its challenges. "I spent a long time trying to get a particular voice down, and that was the greatest technical difficulty I had when writing the novel," Folarin said.
"Watching Woody Allen's 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' -- where a movie star walks off screen and into real life -- helped me to define that voice, and introduce the narrator's transition from using 'we' to 'I'."
Teen wins 'Nobel Prize for Children'
Gus Chaseley-Hayford, chair of judges for the prize, described Folarin's winning prose as a "superb Caine Prize winner -- a delightful and beautifully paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling."
The decision was announced at the 14th Caine Prize ceremony, held Monday night at Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, where Folarin beat his four fellow shortlisted candidates. Three of the other contenders were Nigerian, as was last year's prize winner, Rotimi Babatunde.
"I know that myself and other Nigerian writers have been empowered by a long tradition of Nigerian authors writing beautifully," said Folarin. "At times when we're struggling to write, we derive great power from the work that has come before us."
I know that myself and other Nigerian writers have been empowered by a long tradition of Nigerian authors writing beautifully
Tope Folarin
Folarin has previously received literary fellowships from The Institute for Policy Studies and the journal "Callalloo," as well as studying for two Master's degrees at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. His Caine Prize win means he is eligible to take up a month's tenure as Writer-in-Residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University, which he plans to begin before the end of the year.
Describing himself as a "savings freak," Folarin has no grand plans for his £10,000 ($14,840) prize fund as yet, but his future literary plans are more defined. "'Miracle' is part of a manuscript I've been working on for three years, which ties together a number of novels through a single lead protagonist," he divulged.
"I hope to get that published at some stage in the future, but my main focus right now is just being the best writer I can be.
"Nothing else matters to me."

Dey dey talk science and tech this fooool they post literature. Olodo

Good thread Mr. OP.
However i don't think the thread titld and content agree. The title say ''... Breaking Records ...'', whereas most of them are not record breakers per se.

solomon111: So this is what is making you to foam in the mouth?
Very impressive achievement,but it is not uncommon.
Try harder.

Please ignore her. John is a regular professor. I know him very well and his publications are not that outstanding. What practical things have John contributed to the society other than basic science that starts and ends in the lab? Agreed that basic sciences are the forerunners of applied science.

Moreover, this thread says SE people. If they are so jealous, they can create their own thread and let's see how many young people they produce in science and tech of this caliber.

solomon111: So this is what is making you to foam in the mouth?
Very impressive achievement,but it is not uncommon.
Try harder.

Way way way before Francisca Okeke dreamt about winning the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science awards
two yoruba women won it.

1998 Laureates:
Grance Aladunni L. Taylor (Nigeria): Biochemistry

2001 Laureates:
Adeyinka Gladys Falusi (Nigeria): Molecular genetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Or%C3%A9al-UNESCO_Awards_for_Women_in_Science

Want more?

Sibrah: Good thread Mr. OP.
However i don't think the thread titld and content agree. The title say ''... Breaking Records ...'', whereas most of them are not record breakers per se.

These are record breaking achievements when you are from that area of Nigeria that is just evolving.

Chris-OD:


Please ignore her. John is a regular professor. I know him very well and his publications are not that outstanding. What practical things have John contributed to the society other than basic science that starts and ends in the lab? Agreed that basic sciences are the forerunners of applied science.

Moreover, this thread says SE people. If they are so jealous, they can create their own thread and let's see how many young people they produce in science and tech of this caliber.

[b]The wind energy industry is scaling to larger and larger blades, which harvest more energy. However, Dabiri believes that problems associated with large turbines—design difficulties, building costs, increasing areal needs (turbines are sometimes erected a mile apart to ensure good wind flow), eyesore complaints and accidental bird/bat fatalities—can be avoided through innovation. His FLOWE center, with 24 close vertical axis turbines, is his step towards more economical harvesting of wind energy. Noting that there is constructive interference in the hydrodynamic wakes of schooling fish, Dabiri suggested that extracting energy from flow vortices could aid more than locomotion. [size=14pt]His models of the energy extraction mechanism are applicable to the design and evaluation of unsteady aero- and hydrodynamic energy conversion systems, like wind farms. Design of an array of vertical axis turbines led to about an order of magnitude increase in power output per area. Dabiri partnered with Windspire Energy for use of three of 24 turbines that stand approximately 30 feet tall and 4 feet wide. He started a company, Scalable Wind Solutions, to commercialize the software used to optimally place the wind turbines. This has also led to the U.S. Navy funding development of an underwater craft that propels on these concepts, using up to 30% less energy than formerly.[/size]

Reverse engineering is Dabiri's newest research focus. In July 2012, a team composed of Caltech and Harvard students and professors published a paper that outlined a tissue engineering method for building a jellyfish out of rat heart muscle cells and a silicon polymer. On a basic level, the function of a jellyfish - using a muscle to pump a fluid - "is similar to that of a human heart, which makes the animal a good biological system to analyze for use in tissue engineering." The next step this research will take is towards a self-sustaining prototype - one that can gather food and activate muscular contractions internally[/b]

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh - "Father of Modern Chip Interconnection Technologies", World-class scientist and prolific inventor holding over 100 US patents.

"2006 Inventor of the Year” – For the patent “Method of making electroplated interconnection structures on integrated circuit chip” (USPTO 6,709,562), one of the most valuable patents in the field of semiconductor science and technology.
Holds more than 126 United States issued patents and over 160 patents worldwide in semiconductor technology and co-authored more than 35 publications.

Principal pioneer of modern high performance copper interconnect technologies. Seminal discoveries and inventions are the core backbone of high performance chip interconnects technology. Discovered, co-developed and co-implemented the various critical elements and technologies that led to the successful implementation of copper interconnect technology at IBM Corporation and the entire semiconductor industry.

Pioneered void-free damascene metal gap fill technology, closed loop bath management processes, high performance redundant barrier structures (TaN/Ta, hexagonal TaN/Ta, families of graded composition barrier films), reliable copper integration processes and structures, modern and advanced plating cell designs, highly reliable continuous crystalline interconnects and non-contact testing of wiring structures.

First person to demonstrate void-free damascene copper and to improve copper electromigration from 0.7eV to 1.2eV.
Invented electro-chemical mechanical planarization (eCMP) technology – a comparatively inexpensive method of polishing metals with electric fields using metal slurries at low pressures.

Specialties
Notable specialty in the stability of thin film interfaces, thin film microstructure/defects, thin film reliability, high performance materials/structures, advanced process integration, yield management processes, low cost and high yield processes, electrodeposition, 3D structures and equipment design.