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Contact
Rakshit Jain
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Email: rakshitjain@berkeley.edu / rj372@cornell.edu Website: rj2808.github.io
Research interests
I aim to build new computing hardware by identifying and engineering emergent order parameters such as spin, topology, and polarization that enable energy-efficient information processing beyond charge-based electronics.
Positions
- Postdoctoral Associate, UC Berkeley, with Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, February 2026–present
- Visiting Scientist, Cornell University, August 2025–present
- Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, January 2025–August 2025
Education
- Ph.D., Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Daniel C. Ralph - M.S., Applied Physics, Cornell University, 2020
- B.Tech. with Honors, Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2018
Advisors: Prof. Vishvendra Poonia and Prof. Dinesh Kabra
Minor: Electrical Engineering
Selected awards and fellowships
- APS Topical Group on Magnetism (GMAG) Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2024
- Kavli Graduate Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Nano-Scale Science at Cornell
- Banner Bearer, Class of 2025, Cornell University Commencement Ceremony
- APS Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Award, APS March Meeting 2024
- Materials Innovators Program, Columbia University, Selected Participant, 2023
- APS GMAG Travel Award, APS March Meeting 2023
- DAAD WISE Fellowship for summer traineeship in Germany
Publications
See publications.
Talks
See talks.
Teaching
See teaching.
Service and outreach
- CNF Ambassador, Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, January 2020–present
- Expanding Your Horizons, Committee Chair, Workshops 2020
- Outreach Volunteer, Cornell Center for Materials Research, November 2018–present
- Session Chair, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, November 2023
- Referee: Science, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Materials, Physical Review Applied