S.V.Sreenivasan

About

S.V. Sreenivasan is the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair #7 in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a nanotechnologist with an interest in developing high-throughput nanofabrication techniques for applications in the emerging electronics, displays, and healthcare sectors. He has published over 130 technical articles and holds over 100 U.S. patents in the area of scalable nanotechnologies. Dr. Sreenivasan is the director of the NASCENT Center, a National Science Foundation-funded Nanosystems Engineering Research Center. NASCENT Center is an interdisciplinary research effort in the area of high-throughput nanomanufacturing systems.

Dr. Sreenivasan co-founded Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII), a nanopatterning spin-out from UT Austin. He currently serves as the Chief Technologist of Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc., a company formed as a result of the acquisition of the semiconductor business of MII by Canon Corporation in 2014. Additionally, the display division of MII was acquired in 2015 by Magic Leap, Inc., a leader in augmented/mixed reality displays.

Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, 1994
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (India), 1987

Select Awards & Honors

• Academy of Distinguished Alumni – Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering (2026)
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2021)
• Fellow of ASME (2020)
• ASME Machine Design Award (2017)
• Distinguished Alumni Award – Ohio State University (2016)
• Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2016)
• Distinguished Alumni Award – National Institute of Technology at Trichy in India (2014)
• Inventor of the Year Award – The University of Texas at Austin (2012)
• ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award (2011)
• TAMEST O’Donnell Award for Technology Innovation (2010)

Related Websites

• Texas Institute for Electronics

Select Publications