Laszlo B. Kish    (until 1999: L.B. Kiss)
Professor 
Email: Laszlo.Kish@ece.tamu.edu
Office Number: 237G ZEC 
Office Phone No.: (979) 847-9071 
Fax No.: 845-6259 

Fluctuation and Noise Exploitation Lab web page

Courses (658 Low-Noise Electr. Design; 771 Fluctuations and Noise in Electronics; 370 Electr. Prop. Materials; 325 Electronics)

Personal web page

Education:

Docent in Solid State Physics (Habilitation), Uppsala University, Sweden 1994

Doctoral Degree in Solid State Physics, University of Szeged, Hungary 1984

Physicist Diploma (MS Degree), University of Szeged, Hungary, 1980

Awards and Titles:

Honorary Doctor (Honoris Causa), in Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary, November 10, 2012

Honorary Doctor (Honoris Causa) in Science and Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden, January 28, 2011

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


Publications:

List of publications


Areas of Current Scientific Interest: Noise, Fluctuations, Stochastics: Laws, Limits, Applications, and Challenging Problems

• Fun (Serious): Myth-Busting in Science and Technology
• Noise-based logic and computing
• Johnson-noise engines and demons
  
• Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise secure key distribution (KLJN; incorrectly: Kish cypher)
  
• Unconditionally secure computers, hardware, memories and algorithms
  
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Chemical Sensing
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Biological Sensing: SEnsing of Phage-Trigggered Ion Cascades (SEPTIC)
• Heat-Speed-Error issues; Moore's law and quantum computing
• Stealth Communication, Zero-Quantum Quantum Communication, Zero Power Classical Communication
• Vibration-Induced Conductance Fluctuation (VICOF) Analysis of Soils
  
• Weight fluctuations of memory devices during recording/deleting and after
• 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

Journal Editor:

• Honorary Editor: Fluctuation and Noise Letters (2009/6 - present)
• Biosensors Section Editor of the journal Sensors (2009/6 - present)
• Editor in Chief: Fluctuation and Noise Letters (2001/1- 2008/3)
• 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)

Previous Positions:

• 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

Conference Organizer (out of conference the committee memberships not listed here):

• 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