POTSDAM – Dr. S.V. Babu, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Clarkson University’s Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering, and director of CAMP during 1999-2016, will be a keynote speaker at the graduate commencement ceremony in Potsdam May 10.

Recently, Babu was awarded Clarkson’s Lifetime Research Achievement Award.

The Lifetime Research Achievement Award is granted annually to recognize research by a tenured faculty member who is recognized internationally for a body of work that exemplifies the highest level of research accomplishment and has made a significant impact on their chosen field of study.

An esteemed scientist and engineer, Babu has received numerous awards, including the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in Planarization and the 2017 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award for his research in the field of chemical mechanical planarization and contributions to the fundamentals of chemical mechanical polish surface science. He was also honored for his 20 years of chemical planarization research at Clarkson by the Intel Portland Technology Development CMP staff at the North America CMP User’s Group meeting in Portland, Ore. He also received two faculty development awards from IBM.

Babu is co-author of 31 patents. He has supervised 46 Ph.D. and 38 masters of science students and is a co-author of more than 270 professional publications, including over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

He was a visiting scientist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, and a post-doctoral scientist at NYU.