Ron Larsen
- Digital libraries
- Interoperability
- Scalability
- Cross-lingual information retrieval
- Location-aware computing
- Mobile computing
- Computer and network performance analysis
- Performance metrics for distributed digital libraries
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Peng Liu received his B.S. from Peking University in China, his M.S. from the University of Guelph in Canada, and finally his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States! All three degrees are in Chemistry, with a specialization in Theoretical Organic Chemistry. He won several awards at UCLA, both during his studies as a Ph.D. student and after during his appointment as a post-doc; specifically he won the Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral Research. He finally joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.
We are primarily interested in the optical and electronic characterization of currently important large bandgap semiconductors such as AIN, GaN and SiC. Great emphasis in our research is placed on a close collaboration with the world`s most outstanding growers of single crystal boule material or single crystal epitaxial films. Most recently we have started to learn how to prepare and study single crystal porous SiC.
John Keith received his B.A. in Chemistry from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from California Institute of Technology. After a post doctoral position at the University of Ulm in Germany and then at Princeton, he joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2013 as a an assistant professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He also acts as the Graduate student recruiting coordinator for his department. He has received several awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship for his post doctoral appointment at Ulm, and was on the list of the Pittsburgh Business Times Who's Who in Energy in 2014.