Dr. Geoffrey W. Burr
Principal Research Staff Member, IBM


Geoffrey W. Burr received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1996. Since that time, Dr. Burr has worked at IBM Research--Almaden in San Jose, California, where he is currently a Principal Research Staff Member. He has worked in a number of diverse areas, including holographic data storage, photon echoes, computational electromagnetics, nanophotonics, computational lithography, phase-change memory, storage class memory, and novel access devices based on Mixed-Ionic-Electronic-Conduction (MIEC) materials. Dr. Burr's current research interests include non-volatile memory and cognitive computing. An IEEE Senior Member, Geoff is also a member of MRS, SPIE, OSA, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Institute of Physics (IOP).