Jahnavi Sharma graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in May 2009. She graduated with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2017. In the summer of 2007, she did a three-month internship at the Microelectronics Center of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with the late Dr. Shantiram Kal. Her PhD thesis at CoSMIC lab was focused on high power and/or high-fidelity signal generation and synthesis from RF to optical frequencies. Jahnavi received the 2015-2016 IBM PhD Fellowship and was selected as a 2016 MIT-CMU EECS Rising Star.
Thesis Title: CMOS Signal Synthesizers for Emerging RF-to-Optical Applications
Current Position: Designer at Intel Corporation
Awards and Honors: 2015-2016 IBM PhD Fellowship, 2016 MIT-CMU EECS Rising Star