Dr. Sanjay Sampath

Dr. Sanjay Sampath, is currently Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Sto...Dr. Sanjay Sampath, is currently Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University (SUNY) and director of the Center for Thermal Spray Research. Sampath received his Ph.D. degree from Stony Brook in Materials Science in 1989. After graduating, he spent four years at GTE Sylvania involved in research, development, and processing of refractory metal compounds and composites. Upon joining the faculty at Stony Brook in 1993, Dr. Sampath has directed research efforts on various federal and industrially funded programs. Under the auspices of the NSF Center, he directed a group of a dozen or so interdisciplinary faculty members towards fundamental understanding of thermal spray processes, materials and applications. The self-sustaining Center is home to the Industrial Consortium for Thermal Spray Technology comprising of 36 leading companies aimed at knowledge transfer from fundamental research to application engineering. He was also PI on a major DARPA grant aimed at developing new processing tools for direct writing of mesoscale electronics and sensors. Sampath has over 200 publications to his credit, 15 patents and several best paper awards. He received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities in its inaugural year, elected Fellow of ASM International and in 2007 was recipient of an R&D 100 award for developing the direct write technology. He was also inducted as Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and recognized as a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York System.