Aug 2025 – Justin joined Berkeley Nanolab as an undergraduate intern.
Aug 2025 – Asir gave an invited talk at EMD Electronics.

Jul 2025 – Our latest work on ferroelectric heterostructure integration with GaN/AlGaN heterostructure, overcoming a long-standing fundamental limit in GaN high electron mobility transistors, is published in Science Magazine. The work was covered by IEEE Spectrum and Compound Semiconductor Magazine.
Jul 2025 – Justin and Zayna joined our group. Welcome, Justin and Zayna!
Jul 2025 – Asir delivered an invited talk at the IEEE Nano on the future of interconnect technology for advanced 3D electronics.

May 2025 – Asir gave invited talks at Samsung Semiconductor and SK Hynix.

Feb–Apr 2025 – Asir delivered several invited technical seminars at UC Berkeley EECS, Princeton ECE, UT Austin ECE, UCLA MSE, Purdue ECE, and Yale ECE.
Mar 2025 – Our latest work on low-resistance semimetals was covered by IEEE Spectrum.
Feb 2025 – Asir delivered an invited colloquium seminar at the University of Washington, ECE.

Jan 2025 – Our new Science paper on low-resistance topological semimetal was highlighted by a Stanford News story, also picked up by Phys.org, Physics World, EurekAlert!, AzoNano, and other outlets.
Jan 2025 – Our latest work on reduced electrical resistivity in topological semimetal was published in Science Magazine(Free access provided).

Nov 2024 – Undergraduate mentee Harmon Gault won the SUPREME Undergraduate Microelectronics Fellow award.

Oct 2024 – Asir delivered an invited MSE seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland.

Sept 2024 – Asir delivered an invited seminar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Aug 2024 – Attended NextProf Nexus 2024.

Feb 2024 – Our new work on superlattice materials for a “universal” memory was described in a Stanford School of Engineering news story.
Mar 2024 – IEEE Spectrum also covered our work.

Dec 2023 – Asir Intisar Khan served as a session chair at MRS Fall 2023 (Symposium on 1D and 2D Materials—Electronic Properties and Device Applications).

Nov 2023 – Asir received the Best Presenter Award in the Electronic Materials and Photonics Division at the AVS69 Conference.

Oct 2023 – Asir gave invited talks at EPCOS 2023 and at IBM Research, Zurich.

Sept 2023 – Asir won a Best Student Presenter Award at TechCon 2023.
Sept 2023 – Asir joined EECS, University of California, Berkeley as a Postdoctoral Scholar.

Aug 2023 – Asir received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Aug 2023 – Asir received the AVS Russell & Sigurd Varian Award for his work on novel materials for low-power memory and energy-efficient nanoelectronics.

2023 – Asir offered an invited colloquium seminar at San Francisco State University (Physics & Astronomy).

2022 – Asir received the MRS Fall Meeting Gold Student Award.
2022 – He also received the Best Student Presenter Award at the MRS Fall Meeting. (Stanford EE news story covers both awards).
2022 – Asir delivered an invited tutorial talk at IEEE Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW): “Reliability of Energy-Efficient Phase Change Memory Based on Novel Superlattices and Nanocomposites.”
2022 – Asir offered an invited colloquium seminar at the University of Texas at Dallas (Materials Science and Engineering).
2022 – Asir offered a seminar on energy-efficient phase-change memory at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, NY.
2022 – Asir Khan and Xiangjin Wu’s work on interface-controlled low resistance drift in phase-change memory was highlighted on the cover of IEEE Electron Device Letters.
2022 – Asir received the IEEE EDS PhD Student Fellowship (Stanford EE press release).
2022 – Asir won Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE VLSI Symposium (Stanford EE news story).
2022 – Asir received a travel grant at the IEEE VLSI Symposium.
2022 – Asir’s work was selected as a conference highlight at the IEEE VLSI Symposium (Paper T4-1: “First Demonstration of Ge2Sb2Te5-Based Superlattice Phase Change Memory…”).

Sept 2021 – Asir’s paper on flexible phase-change memory was published in Science Magazine and covered in a Stanford/Precourt press release. Coverage also included IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, C&EN, EE Times, Physics World, Ars Technica, Tom’s Hardware, and many others.

2020–2023 – Asir received the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.