Presidential Distinguished Professor
UT Arlington
Southlake, Texas, United States
Dereje Agonafer is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in MAE at UT ARLINGTON. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of AAAS, Honorary Member of ASME, and Life Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He heads two centers and his current primary research areas are in energy efficiency of data centers and electronic packaging including a new focus on thermal and mechanical challenges in heterogeneous integration packaging. Dr. Agonafer has funding from various industry sources including currently from CoolIT, Fabric8Labs, Google, Honeywell, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Mestex, META, Microsoft, NVIDIA, silent-aire, Vertiv, and government agencies - NSF, NRC and ARPA-E. He has won numerous awards such as: 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award by the SEMI-THERM Educational Foundation Thermal Hall of Fame; 2019 Heat Transfer Memorial Award; 2014 ITHERM Achievement Award, and 2009 InterPACK Achievement Award, and the 2014 the NSBE Golden Torch Award. In March 2020, he received the Howard University Alumni Award at the 153rd Charter Day. Since he joined academia, he has advised 256 graduate students and currently advises 15 PhDs and several MS students.
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Heterogeneous Integration: HPC and Hyperscale Computing Panel Discussion/ Q&A from Audience:
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
3:20 PM – 4:40 PM PDT