Sumit Agarwal

SUMIT AGARWAL is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) since 2005. He joined CSM after his post-doctoral research at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. Prior to this, he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California – Santa Barbara, and his M.S. and B. Tech. degrees from the University of New Mexico and the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, respectively. His current research is focused on studying surface processes during atomic layer processing of materials for semiconductor applications, plasma processing of materials, and development of industrially-relevant fabrication techniques for ultra-high efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. He has received the Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award from the AVS and the NSF CARRER Award. He was the Program Chair for the 3^rd International Workshop on Atomic Layer Etching in 2016, Program Chair of the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the AVS also in 2016, and Program Chair for the 19^th International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition held in 2019. In 2020, he was named Fellow of the AVS.