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David Estrada

was born in Caldwell, Idaho. From 1998 to 2004 he served in the United States Navy as an Electronics Warfare Technician/ Cryptologic Technician - Technical. David achieved the rank of Petty Officer First Class in 2003 before receiving an honorable discharge and returning to Idaho to pursue his undergraduate education at Boise State University (BSU) where he was a Ronald E. McNair scholar. David has held undergraduate research positions with BSU's Device Characterization Group, and with the University of California at Berkeley's Power Electronics Research Group; the latter as part of the Summer Undergraduate Program for Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB).

     After completing his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from BSU in May of 2007, he began graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the direction of Professor Eric Pop. David received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2009, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering at UIUC in 2013. David then joined Prof. Rashid Bashir's Laboratory of Integrated Bio Medical Micro/Nanotechnology Applications as a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher before moving to the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Boise State University.

   David is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. David is the recipient of the NSF, NDSEG, SURGE, and Micron Graduate Fellowships. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Gregory Stillman, John Bardeen, and Lieutenant General Thomas M. Rienzi graduate research awards. His research interests are in the areas of emergent semiconductor nanomaterials and bionanotechnology.

 

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