Vivek Shenoy

Associate Professor:
Engineering
Phone: +1 401 863 1475
Vivek_Shenoy@Brown.EDU

Professor Shenoy's current research focuses on mechanical phenomena involved in the fabrication and performance of nanoscale devices and structures. Among the issues under study are mechanics and electronic properties of graphene and graphene oxide, growth mechanisms and mechanical properties of nanowires, strain-driven self-assembly of nanocrystals, morphological evolution and stability of surface-based nanostructures and strategies for preparing patterned surfaces that can serve as templates for growing nanoscale devices.

Biography

Vivek Shenoy received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1998, working with Will Saam and Jason Ho. From 1998 to 2000 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University with Rob Phillips. In 2000 he became an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2005. He held the Richard and Edna Solomon Assistant Professorship from 2002-2005 and is a recipient of the Rosenbaum visiting Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge. In 2006 he spent his sabbatical leave at the California Institute of Technology and the IBM Watson Research Center.

Interests

Mechanics and electronic properties of graphene and graphene oxide

Mechanics of nanoscale surface instabilities, patterning and self-assembly

Theory and computational modeling of thin film and surface growth processes

Growth mechanisms and mechanical properties of nanowires

Cell adhesion and motility

Awards

2002-2005: Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professorship
2001 : NSF Career Award
1999 : Rosenbaum Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
1997 : Presidential Dissertation Fellowship (Ohio State University