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Anupama Kaul

PACCAR Professor of Engineering

Founder & Director, Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory (NMDL)
Director & PI, DOE/NNSA/MSIPP SEEP-IT Consortium

Founding Member & PI, North Texas Navy STEM Coalition (NT-NSC)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering (joint)
The University of North Texas

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4052-8064

Scopus Author ID: 7101973667

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Summary: Dr. Anupama B. Kaul is the PACCAR Professor of Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). With funding exceeding $14M received as a PI, currently she also serves as PI/Director of the SEEP-IT Consortium from the US DOE involving more than 40 personnel nationwide. From 2017 – 2022, Kaul served as Director of the PACCAR Technology Institute at UNT. Prior to joining UNT in 2017, Kaul was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in the ECE Department at the University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP). Kaul has been listed as a highly cited researcher since 2022 (annual category) based on the Stanford/Elsevier designation and received the College of Engineering Teaching Award in Spring 2025. At UTEP, Kaul earned four recognition awards in 2015 and 2016 from the Vice President for Research Office for her research, and numerous awards for her research while she was affiliated with JPL-NASA-Caltech over the course of 12 years. In 2012, Kaul was selected to be a participant at the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, and in 2014 she was invited to participate in the bi-lateral Indo-US FOE. Kaul is Fellow of SPIE and Fellow of the Class of 2016 ELATE’s executive leadership development program. Kaul obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley in Materials Science and Engineering with minors in ECE and Physics, and B.S. degrees with Honors in physics and engineering physics from Oregon State

Within Academia as Tenured, Full-time Faculty (2014-present)

9/2017 – Present         University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX: PACCAR Professor of Engineering; Department of Materials Science & Engineering; Department of Electrical Engineering (joint); Founder & Director, Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory (NMDL); Director, DOE-NNSA-MSIPP SEEP-IT Consortium, since 3/2023; Director, PACCAR Technology Institute, College of Engineering (until 12/2022)         

9/2017 – 8/2018           University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), TX: Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

9/2014 – 8/2017           University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), TX: Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, College of Engineering; AT&T Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Founder & Director, Nanomaterials and Devices Laboratory (NDL)

Kaul currently serves as Director of the SEEP-IT Consortium at UNT which supports close to 26 students (Graduate and Undergraduate) from UNT, UT Arlington and U. Arkansas, Pine Bluff. Her research is or has been funded by agencies such as the DOE, ONR, ONR STEM, AFOSR, ARO and NSF. 
 
Graduate Education, UC Berkeley (UCB)

Ph.D. Dissertation Advisors and Master’s Thesis Advisors, UC Berkeley (UCB)

  • Ph.D. Major Advisor: Prof. Theodore Van Duzer, ECE, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member
  • Ph.D. Co-Advisor: Prof. Timothy D. Sands, MSE, currently President at Virginia Tech
  • Ph.D. Committee Member: includes Prof. John Clarke, Physics, 2025 Nobel Laureate (Physics)
  • Master’s Thesis Advisor: Prof. Theodore Van Duzer (ECE)
Undergraduate Education, Oregon State University (OSU)

Physics and Engineering, BS (with Honors)

Physics, BS (with Honors), Minor Math; Magna Cum Laude

  • Honors Thesis Advisor: Prof. Janet Tate, Department of Physics, OSU
Awards and Recognition (Selected)
  • UNT College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Award, April 2025; 1 awarded within College of Engineering during 2024-2025 (out of > 150 tenured, tenure track faculty, Clinical Professors/Lecturers in the College of Engineering).
  • Listed as a highly cited researcher in 2024 (top 2%) via Stanford/Elsevier designation, Jan. 7, 2025 https://research.unt.edu/news/unt_faculty_among_2024_list_of_worlds_most_cited_researchers.html
  • DOE/NNSA/MSIPP Certificate of Appreciation Recognition, 2024 Annual Technical Meeting, April 9, 2024.
  • UNT Service Recognition Award, March 2023.
  • Listed as a highly cited researcher in 2023 (top 2%) via Stanford/Elsevier designation. https://research.unt.edu/news/unt-experts-ranked-among-worlds-most-cited-2023.html, Jan. 9, 2024
  • Outstanding Mentor Award, Frisco Independent School District, ISM Mentor Program, May 2022
  • Kaul listed as a highly cited researcher in 2021 via Stanford/Elsevier designation: https://research.unt.edu/news/unt-faculty-named-among-worlds-most-cited-researchers.html, Nov. 4, 2022.
  • Elevated to SPIE Fellow, Jan. 2022.
  • Sigma Xi Membership, Aug. 2022.
  • UTEP Research Recognition Award from the Vice President for Research Office, 3 Awards in 2015, 1 Award in 2016.
  • National Science Foundation, Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence, 2013; Citation: “For leadership & collaborative excellence in developing the topic on 2D atomic-layered materials & devices beyond graphene as a stand-alone EFRI topic.” Only 2 awardees selected for Program Management Excellence from entire Engineering Directorate at NSF in 2013.
  • NASA Service Award, 2012
  • NASA Team Accomplishment Award, 2007.
  • NASA Patent Award, 2008, 2009, 2010 (3 Awards), 2011, 2012, 2013.
  • Class 1 NASA Tech. Brief Award, 12 awards, 2004 – 2014.
  • US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2012 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, Warren, MI.
  • US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2014 bi-lateral Indo-US FOE Symposium, Mysore, India.
  • Fellow of the Class of 2016 ELATE Program (Executive Leadership in Academic Technologies and Engineering) coordinated by Drexel University.
  • More than 105 invited, keynote and plenary talks at major international conferences and meetings sponsored by professional societies (e.g., IEEE, SPIE, MRS, TMS, and NSTI, amongst others).
  • 4 Invention Awards at Motorola Labs, 2001 – 2002.
Service & Advisory Boards (Selected)
  • Vice Chair, User Executive Committee, Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory; term until 2027. https://cnm.anl.gov/pages/user-executive-committee 
  • Center Director, Principal Investigator (PI), Consortium on Sensing, Energy-efficient Electronics and Photonics with 2D Materials and Integrated Technologies (SEEP-IT), $7.45 Million total in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 2023-2028. SEEP-IT, thus far, has contributed to providing hands-on research training to more than 29 undergraduate and 15 graduate students, 4 postdocs; 25 DOE National Labs internships, yielded 28 journal papers and more than 60 conference presentations.
  • Chair and Organizer, DOE/NNSA National Workshop on 2D Semiconductors held at Argonne National Laboratory, Fall 2024.
  • User Executive Committee Member, Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, 2024-2025
  • External Advisory Board Member, Rice University, Houston, TX; Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering (MSNE)
  • External Advisory Board Member, Penn State University’s Two-dimensional (2D) Crystal Consortium (2DCC) – Materials Innovation Platform (MIP), funded at ~ $38 Million since its inception in 2016. https://www.mri.psu.edu/core-research-facilities/2d-crystal-consortium/about/meet-team/external-advisory-committee
  • Editorial Board Member: Nature Scientific Reports, Solar (MDPI), Applied Sciences (Materials Section)
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal (Previously)
US Patents (Issued)
  1. A. B. Kaul "Methods for gas sensing with single-walled carbon nanotubes," US Patent 8,529,124 B2, California Institute of Technology, granted Sep. 2013.
  2. H. M. Manohara, and A. B. Kaul, "Carbon nanotube vacuum gauges with wide-dynamic range and processes thereof," US Patent 8,387,465 B2, California Institute of Technology, granted Mar. 2013.
  3. A. B. Kaul, L. W. Epp, and L. Bagge, "Applications and methods of operating a three-dimensional nano-electro-mechanical resonator and related devices," US Patent 8,435,798 B2, California Institute of Technology, granted May 2013.
  4. A. B. Kaul and J. B. Coles, "Thermally-resilient, broadband optical absorber from UV-to-IR derived from carbon nanostructures and method of making the same," US Patent 8,947,800 B2, California Institute of Technology, granted Feb. 2015.
  5. A. B. Kaul, E. W. Wong, R. Baron, and L. Epp, "Carbon nanotube switches for memory, RF communication and sensing applications and methods of making the same," US Patent 7,446,044, California Institute of Technology, granted Nov. 2008.
  6. T. Van Duzer, X. Meng, N. Newman, L. Yu and A. B. Kaul, "Internally shunted Josephson junction device," US Patent 6,734,454 B2, University of California-Berkeley, granted May 2004.
Teaching

Dr. Kaul has created a new, interdisciplinary course at UNT on Micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS): Materials, Devices and Applications, which she developed through sponsorship from the ONR STEM grant.  More details on the outputs from the ONR STEM Award, where she served as PI, are detailed through the North Texas Navy STEM Coalition (NT-NSC) which she founded at UNT in 2019. This new course she created encompasses theory sections and integrates these with hands-on lab modules utilizing semiconductor manufacturing processes, where students construct devices in the UNT cleanroom facility. This is the first course at UNT utilizing the UNT Cleanroom for instructional purposes.  After a pilot-period of 3 years, this course is now a permanent offering in the UNT MTSE and EE course curricula and is cross-listed as: EENG 4450.012, EENG 5450.012, MTSE 5650.032, MTSE 4120.032 for undergraduates (juniors/seniors) and graduate students.

At UNT, Dr. Kaul also teaches MTSE 3000, Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering, and MTSE 5100, Fundamental Concepts of Materials Science (cross listed for graduate students).