Laszlo B. Kish    (until 1999: L.B. Kiss)
Professor 
Email: Laszlo.Kish@ece.tamu.edu
Office Number: 312A 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 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

• Noise-based logic and computing, including quantum-mimic and brain-mimic computing.
• Thermal noise engines and demons.
  
• Unconditionally secure non-quantum communications and networks (Kish cypher or KLJN cypher).
  
• Unconditionally secure computers, hardware, memories and algorithms.
  
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Chemical Sensing.
• Fluctuation-Enhanced Biological Sensing: SEnsing of Phage-Trigggered Ion Cascades (SEPTIC).
• Noise, Speed and Energy Dissipation in Micro and Nanoelectronics.
• 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.

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.