Jagdish Narayan. Jagdish Narayan is an Indian-born American engineer. Since 2001, he has been the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. Narayan has co-authored over 500 publications and is listed as a co-inventor on over 40 US and international patents. He has conducted research on non-equilibrium laser processing of novel nanomaterials, including Q-carbon, Q-BN, diamond and c-BN related materials.

Early life and education 
Narayan moved to the United States in 1969 from India. After completion of his bachelor's degree (with distinction and honors) from IIT Kanpur, India, he joined UC Berkeley in 1969 and completed his MS (1970) and PhD (1971) in materials science and engineering.

Professional career 
After finishing his PhD, Narayan served as a research metallurgist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1971 to 1972. He later joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he retired as a senior scientist and group leader of the Thin Films and Electron Microscopy Group (1972–84). In 1984, he joined the North Carolina State University as NC Microelectronics Professor and director of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. He was appointed as a Distinguished University Professor in 1989. In 2001, he was appointed as the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor. He was also the director of the Division of Materials Research (DMR) of US National Foundation (1990–92). He received the NSF's Distinguished Service Award.

Research 
He has conducted research on nanosecond laser annealing, laser-solid interactions, transient thermal processing of nanomaterials and epitaxial thin films. He has contributed to the fields of pulsed laser deposition and epitaxial growth of thin-films.  He has contributed to epitaxial growth mechanisms of lattice mismatched films.

His research group at NC State focuses on the controlled fabrication and processing of novel nanomaterials utilizing the pulsed laser deposition using PLD and Laser MBE units, thermal processing of materials using nanosecond laser annealing and generating new epitaxial heterostructures across the misfit scale, utilizing domain matching epitaxy.

Honors and awards 
 National Academy of Engineering, 2017
 National Academy of Inventors Fellow, 2014
 North Carolina Science Award, 2014
 O. Max Gardner Award, 2014
 The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society RF Mehl Gold Medal, 2014
 Acta Materialia Gold Medal, 2011
 RJ Reynolds Prize, 2011
 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal, 2012
 ASM Gold Medal, 1999

References

External links 
 Oral history interview transcript with Jagdish Narayan on 17 March 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
North Carolina State University faculty
IIT Kanpur alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
20th-century Indian engineers
21st-century Indian engineers
Engineers from Uttar Pradesh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Oak Ridge National Laboratory people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Indian emigrants to the United States
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society