Ilesanmi Adesida received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. He is a professor in the U of I Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an affiliate faculty member in the Beckman Institute Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials group, and the director of the U of I Microelectronics laboratory. His fields of interest are advanced materials processing and high speed semiconductor optoelectronic devices and circuits.

Honors: Associate, UIUC Center for Advanced Study; Vice-chair, Electronic Materials Committee; Fellow, IEEE (1999); Oakley-Kunde Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education; University Scholar; Best Paper Award, International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Engineering (1996); Fellow, IEEE; IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer; UIUC College of Engineering's List for Advising Excellence; Member, Bohmische Society; EMSA Presidential Student Award.