Faculty Profile - John D Cressler
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Byers Professor Electronic Design and Applications (Group Chair), and Microelectronics/Microsystems Phone: 404.894.5161 Fax: 404.894.4641 Office: TSRB 538 Research website Books website |
Biography
Dr. Cressler grew up in Georgia, and received the B.S. degree in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984. From 1984 until 1992 he was on the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, working on high-speed Silicon and Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) microelectronic devices and technology. While continuing his full-time research position at IBM, he went back to pursue his graduate studies at Columbia University in 1985, receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics in 1987 and 1990, respectively.
In 1992 he left IBM Research to pursue his dream of becoming a professor, and joined the faculty at Auburn University, where he served until 2002, when he left to join Georgia Tech. He is presently Ken Byers Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Cressler is interested in the understanding, development, and application of new types of silicon-based bandgap-engineered microelectronic devices and circuits for high-speed electronics in emerging 21st century communications systems. He and his team have published over 500 technical papers in this field, and he has written five non-fiction books (two for general audiences). He has recently become enamored with writing historical fiction, and his debut novel, Emeralds of the Alhambra, a love story set in medieval Muslim Spain, will be released in June of 2013. His hobbies include wine collecting, cooking, gardening, and hiking.
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Last revised on April 05, 2013.