New FIAP Officers for 2008-2011
We are pleased to present the newly elected Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics officers. The new officers will assume their posts at the 2008 March Meeting in New Orleans, LA. We extend our thanks to all of the candidates and to all FIAP members who participated in the election.
Vice Chair
Secretary-Treasurer
APS Councilor
Member-at-Large
T. Venky Venkatesan, University of Maryland
Biography:
Prof. Venkatesan has been a Physicist and manager for 17 years with Bell Labs and Bellcore and in the last 17 years has been with the Center for Superconductivity Research at University of Maryland, College Park. He founded the Surface Center at Rutgers University where he was a Professor for about five years (85-90). Currently he is leading an effort in Oxide Electronics at UMD and starting 2008 will be directing a Center of Excellence in Nano-structured Materials, devices and systems at the National University of Singapore. He pioneered the Pulsed Laser deposition process and was the first to elucidate the intricacies of the process to make this a reproducible laboratory technique for the growth of high quality multi-component oxide thin films. He is an ISI highly cited Physicist (ranked 66) has over 450 papers and 27 patents in the area of oxides involving superconductors, magnetic and optical materials. He is a Fellow of the American Physical society, World Innovation Forum, winner of the Bellcore award of excellence and the UMD graduate Board award. He was a member of the Physics Policy Committee and is the founding member of the International Oxide Electronics Workshop. In 1989 he founded Neocera, a company specializing in pulsed laser and electron deposition equipments and also commercialized the HTS SQUID based magnetic microscope MAGMA for semiconductor failure analysis used by virtually all leading semiconductor manufacturers in the world today. A technology based on the scanning microwave near field microscope for silicon low K metrology was commercialized and sold to Solid State Measurements (SSM). He has helped many of his students and post docs in starting companies and 8 of them have started small companies or are holding executive positions in entrepreneurial ventures. He has raised venture capital money over several rounds and has been on the advisory board of the New Market Venture fund of UMD Dingman Center, the UMD incubator and has been involved in promoting entrepreneurship among young researchers. He is a member of the Washington TIE chapter and the greater Washington Indian CXO Forum.
Statement:
FIAP has traditionally fostered better relationship between the world of Physics and the industry. I would like in addition, to stress entrepreneurship in my tenure at FIAP. The enrollment of students in a field is correlated with the ability of the student to make a decent living out of the education and the degree finally obtained. Most Physics students enter the field with the view of becoming a faculty or an industrial or National Labs researcher and in some rare cases a teacher. We must some how change this limited view. In today’s research the link between Physics and technology is ever greater such that opportunities for business startups lurk in every corner and it is a matter of a young person being mentally prepared to take advantage of such opportunities. My firm belief is that out of the many young researchers in the field of Physics close to 10-20% have the skills to become entrepreneurs. Lack of know how prevents many of them from choosing this option. I will use the FIAP as a platform to promote entrepreneurship among our graduate and post-doctoral researchers so that we make job creators out of these bright individuals vs. job seekers. I would like to bring out an entrepreneurial guide for initiating people into thinking about striking out on their own, arrange for Physicist turned entrepreneurs to give talks at the APS meetings and other popular forums and also help provide linkages (web based) to students to various entrepreneurial resources that are already there that they can tap into.
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Mohsen Yeganeh, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research
Biography:
Mohsen Yeganeh received his B.S. in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania where he developed nonlinear optical spectroscopy for the characterization of solid/solid interfaces and received the Outstanding Thesis Award in 1992. After receiving his degree, he joined Exxon Research and Engineering Co. as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been a Member of the Technical Staff at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Laboratories in NJ since 1995 where he leads the nonlinear optical spectroscopy laboratory for the characterization of interfaces that are of commercial importance. Dr. Yeganeh is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the ExxonMobil Production Research Innovator of the Year Award (2006) and the author of over 80 external and internal publications and 15 patents. He has served on the APS Task Force for Industrial and Applied Physics, FIAP (Secretary/Treasurer 2005-2008), the Fellowship committee, the Materials Science Club of NY (Treasurer and a Member of the Board of Directors), and on various seminar organizing and award committees.
Statement:
Advances in physics within the industrial community must be recognized and acknowledged. FIAP has initiated this task and has made tremendous progress toward this goal. FIAP’s effort must be continued, strengthened and widened to include industrial physicists who are involved in non-traditional physics fields. I am committed to encourage industrial physicists working in chemical companies to support FIAP’s efforts. To facilitate this I will seek a closer collaboration between FIAP and both the Chemical and Polymer Physics Divisions. In addition, as a member of the executive committee, I would actively encourage broader interactions between industries and universities, as well as facilitate interactions between physics students and industries for better career planning. My experience as secretary/treasurer of FIAP will serve me well in fulfilling this position.
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Stefan Zollner, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Biography:
Dr. Stefan Zollner is a CMOS integration engineer (a condensed matter physicist by training) with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., on assignment at the IBM East Fishkill facility in New York. He studied semiconductor physics in Regensburg, Stuttgart (Germany), and Tempe, AZ. In 1991/92, he was a postdoc at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, to work on strained Si and Si:C alloy growth development. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor of Physics at Iowa State University, with a joint appointment at the Ames Laboratory (US-DOE). He joined Freescale Semiconductor (then Motorola) in 1997 as an analytical engineer. Most of his research has used spectroscopic ellipsometry to investigate novel electronic materials and their physical properties. More recently, he has worked on low-resistance contacts to CMOS nanodevices. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Past Chair of FIAP (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics), and was Vice Chair of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors held in Flagstaff, AZ, in 2004. He is an author on over 100 printed publications and about 100 conference contributions. With S. Pantelides, he has edited a book on silicon-germanium-carbon alloys.
Statement:
About ten years ago, FIAP was founded to serve the industrial physics community in the APS. Over the years (and with my involvement), our purpose has changed and we have grown into the largest APS unit. Our goal is now to connect three different communities: Industrial APS members, academic physicists in other fields (such as engineering), and applied physicists everywhere (especially students interested in applied physics careers). For many years, I have supported this goal with professional committee service and by organizing FIAP sessions at APS meetings intended to strengthen the ties between these three groups and to highlight interesting industrial physics topics to the broader APS community. As FIAP Councilor, I will continue to support such programs. Additionally, we need to consider that over half of U.S. physics graduates are employed in industry. A significant percentage of APS members are industrial physicists. I will represent this group in the APS Council and will enhance APS membership benefits for industrial physicists, as identified by the recent APS Industrial Physics Task Force, such as access to current physics highlights, networking on the national and local scale, and recognition through awards, invited talks, and society fellowship.
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Mary Lanzerotti, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Biography:
Dr. Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She received an A.B. degree (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1989, a M.Phil. degree from University of Cambridge in 1991, an M.S. degree from Cornell University in 1994, and a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1997, all in physics. She joined IBM in 1996. Dr. Lanzerotti was the Integrator of the Instruction Fetch Unit on IBM's dual-core Power4 microprocessor and with colleagues prepared the IBM Power6 chip-level timing analysis presented at 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The goals of her research are to develop analytical and statistical techniques to (a) identify performance-limiting circuitry and (b) design efficient on-chip interconnections that satisfy IBM Server Group requirements for high-performance microprocessors through the cooperative interactions of manual intervention and computer-aided design tools. Dr. Lanzerotti has authored or co-authored 29 papers in refereed journals and conference publications. She has been granted two patents, with two patents pending. Her website is: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/myl.
Dr. Lanzerotti is recipient of the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Service Award (2007), Engineer of the Year Award from the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) NY Section (2006), and IBM Research Division Outstanding Contribution Award (1998). In 2008, she will be awarded the IEEE Region 1 2007 Technical Innovation Award (Industry or Government). She is Co-Editor of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) News (http://www.sscs.org) and was Executive Editor of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Newsletter from 2001-2006 (http://www.i-leos.org). She was an elected member of the IEEE/LEOS Board of Governors from 2003-2005. She is a member of the IEEE/SSCS, IEEE/LEOS, IEEE/WIE, APS, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Statement:
I am a physics-trained professional currently working at IBM Research in electrical engineering in VLSI Design Department. My research is in the area of high-speed circuit design, and I am also a member of product design teams that help develop IBM products, such as the IBM Power4 microprocessor, that have been or are currently sold in IBM's pSeries and zSeries eServers. I have been a member of APS for 16 years and am currently serving on the APS Committee for Careers and Professional Development (CCPD). With CCPD, I have led the preparation of the First Annual APS Professional Development Resource Guide that is posted on the APS website: http://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/upload/professional_development.pdf .
I am interested in serving the APS community as a member-at-large of FIAP in order to support the objective of the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP), which is to "enhance the Society's ability to meet the needs of the industrial and applied physics community, and help the Society take advantage of the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics" (http://units.aps.org/units/fiap/bylaws.cfm). If elected as a member-at-large of FIAP, I will seek to support this objective by:
(1) working with the other members of FIAP to understand the needs of the industrial and applied physics community;
(2) continuing to develop materials such as the APS Professional Development Resource Guide for physics students and mid-career physics-trained professionals; and
(3) providing information to APS membership about the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics.
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Steven Rosenblum, Corning, Inc.
Biography:
Rosenblum received his Applied Physics PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997. Since graduating, his work has focused on taking ideas and techniques from research and propagating them to a broader audience – first with Kaiser Optical Systems, and since 1999 with Corning Incorporated. At Kaiser he collaborated with Fortune 500 chemical and electronics companies to deploy turn-key analyzers utilizing Raman spectroscopy. At Corning he spent eight years developing models for characterizing optical waveguide attributes and manufacturing processes. In early 2007 he moved to business development role, and finds new markets for Corning Incorporated's technology portfolio.
Rosenblum holds five patents and a similar number of journal publications.
Statement:
Representing less than 200 ppm of the US population, we physicists can increase our impact if we shift how we think about our work from being symbiotic to being catalytic. Rather than merely repaying the resources society and industry provide with our own aperiodic inventions and discoveries, our small numbers require that we drive technologies and breakthroughs beyond our disciplines and institutions if we are to continue having the disproportionate impact on society we had in the 20th century. I view FIAP as the vessel by which we can enable this shift.
Metaphors make for good rhetoric, but do not form a plan. Anecdotal data from my own experience and that of my peers at other companies indicate two obstacles that greatly hinder us from interacting more strongly within the greater industrial world:
1. draconian terms and conditions required by universities for collaborations
2. unreasonable fear of IP leakage on the part of corporations
My goal as Member At Large will be to use our Society as a means of facilitating relationships between institutions. I want to listen to other members' experiences and find a set of common needs for the APS and FIAP to fill. Whether we learn that FIAP's best course lies in sponsoring the development of standard collaboration contracts or in
lobbying congress for changes in intellectual property law, the APS's neutrality makes it an ideal organization for leading this work.
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