Neal G. Anderson Associate Professor 201B Marcus Hall University of Massachusetts 100 Natural Resources Rd Amherst MA 01003-9292 Telephone: (413) 545-0765 E-mail: anderson@ecs.umass.edu

EDUCATION:
B.S.E.E., Michigan State University, 1983
M.S., North Carolina State University, 1985; Ph.D., 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physical information theory, fundamental limits in nanoelectronic information processing, quantum semiconductor heterostuctures, photovoltaics.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORY:
Emerging Electronics Laboratory

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Neal G. Anderson, "Information Erasure in Quantum Systems," Physics Letters A 372, 5552-5555 (2008).
• Neal G. Anderson, "Information Acquisition at the Nanoscale: Fundamental Considerations,"  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 7, 551-556 (2008).
• Ilke Ercan and Neal G. Anderson, "Structure Dependence of Nanoconductor Current in a Tight-Binding Microcanonical Model," NANO '08: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE 2008), pp. 331-334, August 2008.
• Neal G. Anderson, "An Information-Theoretic Measure for the Computational Fidelity of Physical Processes," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 2356-2360, July 2008.
  
• Ilke Ercan and Neal G. Anderson, "Current and Information in the Microcanonical Picture of Nanoscale Transport," Journal of Computational Electronics 7, pp. 466-470 (2008).
• Neal G. Anderson, "Quantum Subspace Measurements," Open Systems and Information Dynamics 14 , 117-126 (2007).

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Physical Society. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Optical Society of America, Philosophy of Science Association

HONORS & AWARDS: UMass Distinguished Teaching Award (2006). College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (1993).

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