He received a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1999 and the M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. After graduation, he worked at Intel for 18 months on hot electrons and phonons in advanced transistors, and did post-doctoral research on silicon nanowire thermoelectrics at the University of California, Berkeley. Sanjiv Sinha received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and was recently selected for the DARPA-Young Faculty Award. His current interests are in phonon transport phenomena, semiconductor device physics and thermoelectrics. His group employs theoretical tools and ultrafast laser experiments to probe fundamental transport and to devise ways to engineer transport for specific applications.