List of Research Paper Awards:

Best Invited Paper Award

2007 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)

M. Bakir, B. Dang, and J. Meindl, "Revolutionary nanosilicon ancillary technologies for ultimate performance gigascale system"

Outstanding Paper Award:

2007 Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC)

M. Bakir et al. " 'Trimodal' Wafer-Level Package: Fully Compatible Electrical, Optical, and Fluidic Chip I/O Interconnects"

Best Paper Award:

2002 Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC)

M. Bakir et al. "Sea of Leads ultra-high density compliant wafer-level packaging technology"

Best Student Paper Award:

2006 International Interconnect Technology Conference

O. Ogunsola et al., “Polymer pillars as optical I/O for gigascale chips using mirror-terminated waveguides”

Best Student Paper Award:

2005 International Interconnect Technology Conference

B. Dang et al., “Wafer level microfluidic cooling interconnects for GSI”

 

 

Georgia Institute of Technology (graduate school + current)                                   [8/99-present]

  1. MARCO Inventor Recognition Award, 2002, 2005
  2. Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship, 1999-2003
  3. Intel Ph.D. Fellowship, 2002-2003

Auburn University (undergraduate)                                                                           [6/96-6/99]

  1. IEEE’s most outstanding graduating senior from Auburn’s ECE, Spring 1999
  2. International Engineering Consortium’s William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence, 1999
  3. The White Family Engineering Scholarship Endowment, 1998-1999
  4. Engineering Dean's Honor List for ten quarters
  5. Fred H. Pumphrey Outstanding Pre-Engineering Student Award, 1997
  6. Phi Kappa Phi award for most Outstanding Freshman, 1997