Dr. Devanand ShenoyProgram Manager
Dr. Shenoy joined DARPA in August of 2005 from the Naval Research Lab (NRL) in Washington, DC. Dr. Shenoy's interests are in exploiting novel concepts based on new materials and/or device architectures for revolutionary electronic and photonic microsystems. At DARPA, he developed and is managing programs in the following areas: Standoff detection of explosives (RIEDAR); Devices based on non-linear optical (NLO) materials for RF photonics and sensor protection (MORPH); Curved focal plane array for wide field of view sensing in the VIS-NIR-SWIR bands (HARDI), Spin based memory (STT-RAM), and an E-Field Detector (E-FED). He is currently working on a new program to develop Non-Volatile Logic devices.
Dr. Shenoy received his B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at Bangalore University, Bangalore, India; his M.Sc. in Physics from the same University specializing in Solid State Physics; and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India.
He developed postdoctoral experience in laser light scattering from polymer systems at the Department of Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University and later served as Research Faculty in Physics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There, his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the polyethylene oxide/water system led to publications in high-impact journals such as Nature. As a Research Physicist at NRL, he led and contributed to several DoD projects including nanopore-based DNA sequencing, dispersion and alignment of single walled carbon nanotubes for electronics and sensing, uncoooled IR sensor based on pyroelectric liquid crystals, underwater acoustic detection utilizing high birefringence complex fluids, artificial muscles with nematic polymers, and non-contact photo-alignment of liquid crystal alignment layers.
Dr. Shenoy has served on the DoD Display Technology Panel and as a referee for reputed publication journals such as Nano Letters and Physical Review letters. He is a member of multiple scientific and technical societies, has more than 50 scientific and technical publications, a book chapter and an issued patent on molecular nanopores for DNA sequencing.
Dr. Shenoy's recent NRL awards include four invention awards, an NRL contribution award, the technology transfer award and a special act award for exceptional performance significantly exceeding normal job requirements.