T.E. SCHLESINGER

Professor and Head Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Professor T.E. Schlesinger is Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Toronto in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1985 respectively. His research interests are in the areas of solid state electronic and optical devices, nanotechnology, and information storage systems. Professor Schlesinger was the founding co-director of the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory at CMU and was Director of the Data Storage Systems Center prior to becoming head of ECE. His work and the work of his students is of direct interest to a number of industrial partners and he has received a number of awards and honors including; 1999 and 1998 R&D 100 Awards for his work on nuclear detectors and electro-optic device technology and the Carnegie Science Center 1998 "Scientist" award. In 1988 he received the George Tallman Ladd Award for research and in 2001 he received the Benjamin Richard Teare Award for teaching from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has published over two hundred archival journal publications, keynote, invited and contributed conference presentations and holds ten patents. He is a Fellow of the SPIE.