EE Alumnus Appointed Associate Provost at Brown University
02/04/2010
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appointed Associate Provost at Brown University as of Feb. 1, 2010.
Dr. Beresford received his Ph.D. with Prof. Wen Wang's group
and has been a professor at Brown University
since 1990.
A graduate of Yale University (BS 1979, MS 1981), Rod worked in
research at IBM and in technical publishing before completing a PhD in
Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (1990). Since then he has
been a member of the faculty at Brown, pursuing research interests in
electronic materials and devices (especially the crystal-growth method
of molecular beam epitaxy) and teaching in electromagnetism,
semiconductors, and circuit design. He served as the academic organizer
for the National Science Foundation's 2008 Nanoscale Science and
Engineering grantees' conference. His current project on graphene, a
crystalline form of carbon just one or two atoms thick, is funded by the
NSF and the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative, a consortium of
electronics industry firms including IBM, Intel, and Texas Instruments.