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Neal G. Anderson

Submitted by asakhaei on December 13, 2011 - 2:39pm
Associate Professor

201B Marcus Hall
University of Massachusetts
100 Natural Resources Rd
Amherst MA 01003-9292

Phone: 
(413) 545-0765
Email: 
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; nanocomputing; nanoscale and quantum devices for computing and photovoltaics.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORIES: 
Nanoelectronics Theory and Simulation Laboratory
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 
  • Neal G. Anderson, "Overwriting Information: Correlations, Physical Costs, and Environment Models," Physics Letters A 376, 1426-1433, 2012.
  • Ilke Ercan and Neal G. Anderson, "Heat Dissipation Bounds for Nanocomputing: Theory and Application to QCA," IEEE NANO 2011: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, pp. 1289-1294, 2011.
  • Ilke Ercan, Mostafizur Rahman, and Neal G. Anderson, “Determining Fundamental Lower Bounds on Heat Dissipation for Transistor-Based Nanocomputing Paradigms,”Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, pp. 169-174, 2011.
  • Neal G. Anderson, "On the physical implementation of logical transformations: Generalized L-Machines,"  Theoretical Computer Science 411, 4179-4199, 2010.
  • Neal G. Anderson, "Information Erasure in Quantum Systems," Physics Letters A 372, 5552-5555, 2008.
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)