Educational History
- PhD, Purdue University
- MS, Purdue University
- BS, Case Western Reserve University
- One-year sabbatical at the MIT National Magnet Laboratory
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Top Five Honors, Awards, or Recognition
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Thank you letter from President Clinton for serving on the Technology Reinvestment Project (1994)
- NIST Equal Employment Opportunity/Diversity Award (2005)
- Purdue University School of Science Distinguished Alumnus Award (2000)
Most Recent APS Volunteer History
- Chair, FIAP Executive Committee (2005-2008, 2013-2017)
- Chair, GIMS Executive Committee (1994-1997, 2000-2004)
- APS Industrial Physics Advisory Board (2016-2017)
- George E. Pake Prize Committee (2016 -2017)
- Prize Committee, Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award (2018)
Membership in Other Societies
- AVS Executive Committee of the Manufacturing Science and Technology Group (1996-2003)
- IEEE EDS Region/Chapters Committee (2000-2007); Semiconductor Manufacturing Committee (2003-2010)
- Recording Secretary, ASTM Committee F-01 on Electronics (1996-1997)
- Materials Research Society
- Sigma Pi Sigma, Sigma Xi, Pi Delta Epsilon
Other Relevant Experience
- Chief of Staff, NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory (2018-2020)
- Division Chief, Group Leader, NIST, with annual budgets as large as $25M (1988-2017)
- Program Director, Solid State Physics, NSF Materials Research Division (1985-1986)
- Initiator conference series (Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics) addressing semiconductor industry measurement needs (1995-2022)
- NIST Governing Council representative for Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (2007-2017)