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Laszlo Kish
Professor
Office Number: 312A ZEC
Office Phone No.: (979) 847-9071
Fax No.: 845-6259

Fluctuation and Noise Exploitation Lab web page

Courses (370 Electr. Prop. Mat.; 325 Electronics, 658 Low-Noise Electr. Design; 697 Fluctuations and Noise in Electronics)

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• Doctoral Degree in Solid State Physics (Summa cum laude = Outstanding), JATE, Hungary 1984.
• Physicist Diploma (MS Degree), Attila Jozsef University (JATE), Hungary, 1980.

• Recipient of the year 2001 Benzelius Prize of the Royal Society of Science of Sweden for his activities on chemical sensing.
• Doctor of Science (Physics), Hungarian Academy of Science, 2001.
• Docent in Solid State Physics (habilitation), Uppsala University, Sweden 1994.

• Noise-based logic and computing, including superior-to-quantum and brain models.
• Unconditionally secure computers, hardware, memories and algorithms.
  
• Unconditionally Secure Non-Quantum Communication and Networks.
• Stealth Communication, Zero-Quantum Quantum Communication, Zero Power Classical Communication.
• Vibration-Induced Conductance Fluctuation (VICOF) Analysis of Soils.
  
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Chemical Sensing.
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Biological Sensing.
• Weight fluctuations of memory devices during recording/deleting and after.
• Noise, Speed and Energy Dissipation in Micro and Nanoelectronics.
• Heat-Speed-Error issues; Moore's law and quantum computing.
  
• Stochastic Resonance and its Neural and Nonlinear Signal Processing Aspects.
• Electronics, New Measuring Principles and New Sensors, Non-Invasive Probing.
• Noise, Quality, Ageing and Degradation of Films and Electronic Devices.
• The Constructive Role of Noise & Fluctuations.

• Editor in Chief: Fluctuation and Noise Letters (2001/1- 2008/3; World Scientific).
• Editorial Board: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2005; American Scientific Publishers).
• Editorial Board: Nanotechnology E-Bulletin (2003-2005; SPIE).
• Guest Editor of Smart Materials and Structures (IOP), special issue on Smart Nanostructures and BioMEMS (2002).

• 4/1997 - 7/2001 Director of Research Group at Uppsala University, Ångström Lab, Solid State Physics Division, Uppsala, Sweden
• 1987-1997: Lecturer and Founder-Director of the Noise Research Laboratory at JATE University, Department  of Experimental Physics,  Szeged, Hungary
• 1982-1988:  Assistant to Professor, JATE University, Department of Experimental Physics, Szeged, Hungary:
• 1980-1982:  Supervisor of Electronic Development Lab, Csepel Iron and Metal Works, Technology Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary.

    - Author of 19  patents/disclosures and 250+ international publications, including:
            - 50+ invited talks at international conferences and 3 reviews;
            - 140+ peer reviewed journal articles:
            - Editor and Co-Editor of 10 books/proceedings;
            - List of publications

• Chair of SPIE's Third International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise (FaN'05), Austin, TX, May 23-26, 2005.
• Chair of SPIE's Second International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise (FaN'04), Canary Islands, May 26-28, 2004.
• Chair of SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise (FaN'03), Santa Fe, NM, June 1-3, 2003.
• Chair of SPIE's Conference on Noise in Nanoelectronics, Sensors and Standards, (part of the FaN'03 Symposium), Santa Fe, NM, June 1-3, 2003.
• Co-Chair of SPIE's Conference on Smart Electronics, MEMS, BioMEMS, and Nanotechnology, 2-6 March 2003, San Diego, California.
• Chair of SPIE's Conference on Bio-MEMS and Smart Nanostructures, Adelaide, Australia, December, 2001.
• Founder of a new international scientific conference series: "Unsolved Problems of Noise", UPoN.
• Chairman of the first conference of this series: UPoN'96, Szeged, Hungary, 1996.
• Technical Program Director of UPoN'99 in Adelaide, Australia, 1999. The journal Nature (vol. 401, 2 September 1999, p. 23) published a report on this conference.
• Co-Chairman of the international workshop: "Advanced Nanomaterials from Vapours" , ANfV'98 held at Ångström Lab, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1998.

Referee Assignments at various Research Journals, including:

• Applied Physics Letters; J. Applied Physics; Physical Review Letters; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, IEEE Trans. Electronic Devices; Solid State Electronics; Nanotechnology; Physical Review E and B; Journal of Physics C (Condens.Matt.); Journal of Physics A (Math.Gen.); Journal of Physics D; Physics Letters A; Semiconductor Science and Technology; Microelectronics Reliability; Chaos; IEEE Sensors,  etc.