Robert D. Miller BS, PhD

Dr. Robert D. Miller received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University. He joined IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights NY after his postdoctoral year and moved to the San Jose Research laboratory in 1972. He currently manages the Advanced Organic Materials Department at the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory.His research activities have included a wide range of technologies from: basic photochemical processes and mechanisms, radiation sensitive polymers and microlithography, controlled polymerization techniques, to nanoporous thin films for Bioscience, Optics and Photonics, photovoltaic materials and structures, sublithographic self assembly using block copolymers, air bridge dielectrics, radiation definable dielectrics, solution and CVD precursors for low-k applications, and others.

He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Chemical Reviews and Advanced Functional Materials. During his career, he has received five IBM awards for outstanding technical achievements, 31 invention plateau awards and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Dr Miller was elected a Fellow of the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) in 2006 , the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2007 and the American Chemical Society in 2011. In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is the recipient of the 2010 American Chemical Society award for Chemistry of Materials Dr. Miller is a co-inventor on more than 70 patents and patent publications and has published more than 350 articles in refereed technical journals.