Biography of Prof. Beresford

Rod Beresford earned degrees in electrical engineering from Yale University (B.S. 1979, M.S. 1981) and from Columbia University (Ph.D. 1990). He is currently Associate Professor of Engineering at Brown University, Providence, RI, where he established molecular beam epitaxy and microelectronic fabrication laboratories. Prior positions held include editor-in-chief of VLSI Design and engineer at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has published more than 50 scientific and technical papers on semiconductor materials and devices. His current research emphasizes molecular beam epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors and he has recently chaired the 20^th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy at Brown .