N. R. Aluru is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Industrial Engineering at UIUC. He is also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Bioengineering Department at UIUC.
He received the B.E. degree with honors and distinction from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, in 1989, the M.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1995. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an Assistant Professor. He received the NSF CAREER award and the NCSA faculty fellowship in 1999, the 2001 CMES Distinguished Young Author Award, the Xerox Award and the Willett Faculty
Scholar Award in 2002. He is a Subject Editor for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II and serves on the Editorial Board of a number of other journals.