Max Shulaker, PhD

Max Shulaker is currently a medical student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT since 2016, where he led NOVELS (Novel Electronic Systems Group). Prior to joining MIT, he was at Stanford University where he received his BS, Masters, and PhD in Electrical Engineering. Shulaker’s research interests include the broad area of nanosystems.

His research focuses on understanding and optimizing multidisciplinary interactions across the entire computing stack – from low-level synthesis of nanomaterials, to fabrication processes and circuit design for emerging nanotechnologies, up to new architectures – to enable the next generation of high performance and energy-efficient computing systems. Research results from him and his students include the demonstration of the first carbon nanotube computer (highlighted on the cover of Nature and presented as a Research Highlight to the US Congress by the US NSF), the first digital sub-systems built entirely using carbon nanotube transistors (awarded the ISSCC Jack Raper Award for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper), the first monolithically-integrated 3D integrated circuits combining arbitrary vertical stacking of logic and memory, the highest performance carbon nanotube transistors to-date (award VLSI best student paper award), the first highly-scaled carbon nanotube transistors fabricated in a VLSI-compatible manner, and the largest and most complex nanoelectronic system ever fabricated: a RISC-V microprocessor fabricated entirely with carbon nanotube transistors. Shulaker led the Three Dimensional Monolithic System-on-a-Chip (3DSoC) program, part of DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative.