{"484421":{"#nid":"484421","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ajeet Rohatgi Named as NAI Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAjeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is part of the Class of 2015 NAI Fellows, consisting of 168 leaders of invention and innovation, to be inducted on April 15, 2016 during the Fifth Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA Regents\u2019 Professor at Georgia Tech, Rohatgi has been on the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty since 1985. He has led the University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education since 1992, where he conducts industry-relevant research to make solar energy cost-effective by developing low-cost, high efficiency silicon cells. The Center was the first of its kind in the United States and was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERohatgi is the founder and chief technology officer of Atlanta-based Suniva, the first silicon solar cell manufacturing company in the southeastern United States. Established in 2007, Suniva produces the highest efficiency, best in class silicon solar cells in the nation, using the low-cost technologies developed in Rohatgi\u2019s lab at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn IEEE Fellow, Rohatgi holds the John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair at Georgia Tech and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He has published over 500 technical papers and holds 19 U.S. and 22 international patents\u2013seven of which have been licensed to Suniva.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor his longstanding contributions to photovoltaics (PV), Rohatgi has been recognized with many honors, including the Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation Award, the Environmental Protection Agency Climate Protection Award, the American Solar Energy Society Hoyt Clark Hottel Award, the IEEE Cherry Award, and the U.S. DOE\/National Renewable Energy Laboratory Rappaport Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERohatgi was named a Champion of PV by \u003Cem\u003ERenewable Energy World Magazine \u003C\/em\u003Ein 2010. He has served on several solar energy technical advisory committees and on the editorial boards of \u003Cem\u003ESolar Cell Journal\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ESolar Energy Material and Solar Cells\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EProgress in Photovoltaics\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Regents\u0027 Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Regents\u0027 Professor Ajeet Rohatgi has been named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2016-01-11 15:19:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:24","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"484431":{"id":"484431","type":"image","title":"Ajeet Rohatgi","body":null,"created":"1452898800","gmt_created":"2016-01-15 23:00:00","changed":"1475895236","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:56","alt":"Ajeet Rohatgi","file":{"fid":"204277","name":"rohatgi_2006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rohatgi_2006_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rohatgi_2006_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":948397,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rohatgi_2006_0.jpg?itok=6klA9bLh"}}},"media_ids":["484431"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.suniva.com\/","title":"Suniva"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/ajeet-rohatgi","title":"Ajeet Rohatgi"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.academyofinventors.org\/","title":"National Academy of Inventors"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"390","name":"Ajeet Rohatgi"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"1464","name":"Georgia Research Alliance"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"87401","name":"National Academy of Inventors"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"166856","name":"Suniva"},{"id":"12115","name":"University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}