ISN Director Tomás Palacios Receives 2026 SIA/SRC University Research Award

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have recognized ISN Director Tomás Palacios for his contributions to semiconductor technology, particularly wide-bandgap electronic devices and two-dimensional materials.
Official SIA/SRC 2026 University Research Awards graphic featuring portraits of Columbia University Professor Keren Bergman on the left and MIT Professor Tomás Palacios on the right, with their names and institutional affiliations beneath their photographs and the SIA and SRC logos above.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) named MIT Professor and ISN Director Tomás Palacios (right) the recipient of the 2026 University Research Award for Technology and Columbia University Professor Keren Bergman (left) the recipient of the University Research Award for Design. Image courtesy of SIA and SRC.

Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has been named the recipient of the 2026 SIA/SRC University Research Award for Technology. His research bridges materials science, physics, and engineering to advance the development of next-generation micro- and nanosystems.

In addition to directing MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), Palacios serves as director of MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) and assistant director of the Center for Superior Energy-efficient Materials and Devices (SUPREME), part of the SRC-led JUMP 2.0 research initiative.

The organizations also named Keren Bergman, professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University, as the recipient of the 2026 SIA/SRC University Research Award for Design, recognizing her contributions to optical interconnect networks and photonic-enabled computing architectures.

The awards will be presented at the SIA Awards Dinner on November 19, 2026, in San Jose, California.

 

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