Krishna Muralidharan

Krishna Muralidharan is a professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Arizona, with joint appointments at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics.

Since February 2025, he has served as the interim director of the University of Arizona Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing. In this role, he oversees the goals of the center: 

• Sustain a state of the art R&D program that enables innovations across the semiconductor ecosystem, ranging from integration of new semiconductor materials, to targeted design of application-driven hardware architectures, to advanced fabrication and packaging paradigms.
• Create an agile, forward-looking education and workforce development program that closely aligns with the growing semiconductor workforce needs in Arizona and across the nation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for U of A researchers to collaborate with federal agencies, industry partners and  external research labs.

Muralidharan earned his PhD from The University of Arizona in 2004, and prior to joining the U of A as a faculty member, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Florida.