Certified Professionals

Charvaka Duvvury received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Physics. He is a Texas Instruments Fellow working in the External Development and Manufacturing Group. His current work is on the development and company wide support of ESD for the nanometer submicron CMOS technologies. Charvaka has made numerous international presentations on ESD phenomena and on-chip protection design. He has published over 130 papers in technical journals and conferences,  holds 64 patents, and has co-authored 3 books.  He is a recipient of the Outstanding Contributions Award from the ESD Symposium (1990) and numerous Best Paper/Best Presentation awards from the ESD Symposium.  Charvaka served as the General Chairman of the ESD Symposium both in 1994 and in 2005. He has been a member of the ESD Association Board of Directors since 1997, promoting university education and research in ESD. Charvaka is also a Fellow of the IEEE.