Ashish Dembla, a 26-year-old graduate student in Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a graduate research assistant at the Marcus Nanontechnology Research Center, was killed in a car accident in July while on vacation with his family in the Smoky Mountains near Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
His parents, visiting from India, were also killed; his sister was critically injured. At Tech, Dembla had been studying radical 3-D interconnect technologies for high-performance computing systems; he had published a number of papers on the subject, and was eyeing a teaching career. “Ashish was the best at what he did,” his friend James Yang told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “What he had achieved in the research was far ahead of anyone in the world and is so important for the entire computer industry.”
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