University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Prof. Umberto Ravaioli’s expertise is in the area of computational electronics, including continuum and particle Monte Carlo simulation both for semiconductor and bioelectronic systems, nanoelectronics, quantum transport, supercomputation and advanced visualization. His research activities have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Army Research Office, and DARPA. His group has developed the 2-D/3-D Monte Carlo simulator “MOCA” for advanced silicon devices, which has been in use for physical device simulation at major semiconductor companies. A commercial version of the program is now under development by Synopsys, for which he consults. His work in the bioelectronics area has led to the creation of the transport Monte Carlo code “bioMOCA” for charge transport simulation in ionic channels with funding from DARPA and NSF. He is Fellow of the IEEE and of the Institute of Physics (IOP).He is currently serving as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering..