Savannah Eisner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University in 2017, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2020 and 2023, respectively. Her dissertation research focused on the use of uncooled GaN transistors for extreme environment space applications. She served as a postdoctoral scholar in the Extreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. Dr. Eisner was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and a Future Technical Leaders Fellow of the NSF engineering research center for power optimization and electro-thermal systems. She is the recipient an IEEE Aerospace Best Paper Award for her work on GaN microelectronics for future Venus surface missions.
Her research interests include the design of (ultra)wide-bandgap micro/nanoelectronic solid-state logic, sensors, and MEMS. She is interested in harnessing the exciting capabilities of these emerging materials to fill the growing demand for reliable micro/nanoelectronic sensors and systems that can operate without the need for bulky and expensive thermal management. She is focused on pushing device operation beyond the limits of conventional silicon electronics by investigating innovative device architectures and deploying them into systems. Critical new frontiers that can benefit from such advancements include robotic planetary exploration, environmental monitoring, hypersonic aircrafts, and quantum computing.