Senior Past President
Ed Schlesinger
Carnegie Mellon University

T.E. Schlesinger is Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this he was the Director of the Data Storage Systems Center and was the founding co-director of the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory at CMU. Professor Schlesinger is also currently the Director of the MISCIC Center at CMU. 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. 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; the Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Award for research, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, 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. He is a Fellow of the SPIE. In 2001 he received the Benjamin Richard Teare Award for Teaching from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He has published over two hundred fifty archival journal publications and invited and contributed conference presentations and holds ten patents.