Biography

Sanjukta Bhanja received a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 1991 and a Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1994. She earned her PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2002 at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is currently a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida.

Currently, Bhanja serves as Executive Associate Dean for the College of Engineering since FY’2021. In this role, she is the Dean’s designee for internal affairs. Her portfolio includes (a) faculty affairs: recruitment, enrichment, retention, and Tenure & Promotion, (b) Fiscal analysis, planning, and allocation, (c) Resource Management, (d) HR, (e) Facilities and Space, and (f) College-wide support services and units, such as Technical Support Services, Design for X lab, and Nanotechnology Research and Education center. She was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (ADAA) from 2017-2021. In that role, her contributions were towards (a) interweaving communication in technical courses throughout the curriculum; (b) creating a design thinking course for First-year Engineering students—the course is team-taught, tightly synchronized; (c) launching a preparatory Math course to help students perform better for summer admits, whose profile suggests lack of Math preparation in high schools; (d) creating seamless transitioning into remote, hybrid and face-to-face course delivery during COVID; (e) securing ABET and other accreditation certification; and (f) co- founding Academy of Distinguished Engineering Educator (ADE2) to promote educational leadership and excellence.

Bhanja’s research is in the VLSI, nano-electronics and Applied Physics areas, and is externally sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA. She has graduated 12 PhD students placed in high-tech taskforce and is currently advising four doctoral students (three are women/minority). Her creative works are published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and conferences including high impact journals, such as Nature Nanotechnology. She has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems. Besides serving on the Technical Program Committees (TPC) of various IEEE and ACM conferences, Bhanja has also secured professional leadership position as TPC Co-Chair and General Co-Chairs of ACM GLSVLSI, IEEE ISVLSI. In 2013, she organized a National Science Foundation sponsored conference on ''Field-coupled Nano-computing'' that connected and evaluated research progress in Field-coupled computing. In 2014, she organized CRAW/CDC/NSF sponsored discipline -specific workshop addressing diversity issues in Design Automation for Emerging Technology. She joined the steering committee of ACM GLSVLSI 2013 and IEEE ISVLSI 2015. She was the recipient of the New Researcher award from the University of South Florida in 2002; NSF CAREER award, 2007; USF Tau Beta Pi "Outstanding Engineering Faculty Researcher" award, 2007; USF "Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award" in 2008; USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award, 2010; Florida Education Foundation (F.E.F) William Jones Outstanding Mentor award, 2010; Honorable mention award Outstanding Graduate faculty mentor in 2013. She is selected and certified as 2020-2021 Executive Leadership Fellow in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES at Drexel®) program.

CV updated January, 2023.