Shaloo Rakheja
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · The Grainger College of Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quick answer: Shaloo Rakheja is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Shaloo Rakheja shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
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Research interests
Compact Modeling of wide bandgap and ultrawide bandgap semiconductor devices for high-frequency and high-power applications
Modeling and simulation of spin-based devices for low-power non-volatile memory and brain-inspired computing
Modeling of reconfigurable devices using van der Waals materials and ferroelectrics for in-memory computing
Selected publications (since 2023)
Afrid, S. M. T. S., Zhao, H. L., van der Zande, A. M., & Rakheja, S. (2025). Strain-tunable inter-valley scattering defines universal mobility enhancement in n-and p-type 2D TMDs. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08975. (accepted for publication in npj 2D Materials and Applications).
Dastider, Ankan Ghosh, Matt Grupen, Ashwin Tunga, and Shaloo Rakheja. "Physics-based Full-band GaN HEMT Simulation Suggests Upper Bound of LO Phonon Lifetime." J. Appl. Phys. 21 February 2026; 139 (7): 074502.
Qian, S., Shukla, A., & Rakheja, S. (2025). Influence of thermal noise on the field-driven dynamics of the non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn. Applied Physics Letters, 127(20).
Kang, J., Lee, H., Tunga, A., Xu, X., Lin, Y., Zhao, Z., Ryu, H., Tsai, C.C., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K. and Rakheja, S., (2025). Non
Frequently asked questions
Is Shaloo Rakheja hiring PhD students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Shaloo Rakheja's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: If you are interested in conducting your doctoral research in my group, please email me with a copy of your CV, research statement, and a short slide deck with an overview of your prior research exper.
What does Shaloo Rakheja research?
Compact Modeling of wide bandgap and ultrawide bandgap semiconductor devices for high-frequency and high-power applications
Modeling and simulation of spin-based devices for low-power non-volatile memory and brain-inspired computing
Modeling of reconfigurable devices using van der Waals materials an
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