John is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara and a Consulting Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Prior to joining the Center For Nanostructures, he received a B.A. in Mathematics (1996) from the College of Wooster, a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (1997) from Purdue, and M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford. His doctoral work was carried out under Jim Plummer (Electrical Eng.) and Walter Harrison (Applied Physics), and focused primarily on the theory and measurement of dielectric instabilities in glasses, particularly high-k gate dielectrics. After his doctoral work, he became a Postdoctoral Researcher with Yoshio Nishi in the Electrical Engineering Dept. at Stanford, where he studied nonvolatile memory based on reversible field-induced changes in the resistance of metal-sulfide and metal-oxide capacitors. John’s current research activities include fundamental studies of instabilities in glasses and how they affect nanoelectronic devices, the development of new materials for advanced nonvolatile memory, and use of carbon nanotubes and nanofibers as vias and interconnects in integrated circuits.