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EE Chair Vladimir Mitin Honored as SUNY Distinguished Professor
Vladimir Mitin, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering was named a SUNY Distinguished Professor in recognition of international prominence and reputation in nanophononics, the branch of nanotechnology concerned with energy transfer, detection, and conversion at the nanoscale level.
The rank of distinguished professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, is an order above full professorship and has three co-equal designations: distinguished professor, distinguished service professor, and distinguished teaching professor.
Mitin helped develop UB’s nanoengineering program, creating one of the best equipped undergraduate nanoelectronics labs in the US, and establishing the interdisciplinary UB Center on Hybrid Nanodevices and Systems.
His work has helped shape understanding of nanoscale electron-phonon kinetics and transport, with broad-ranging applications in such areas as quantum sensing and information technologies, national security, medicine, and astrophysics.
In 2005, Mitin received a generous faculty development grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research to conduct multidisciplinary research designed to develop and commercialize multifunctional nanosensors and sensor networks to enhance health care, especially for remote applications, to improve detection of contaminants and to boost advances in quantum communication.
Mitin has authored over 430 professional publications; he has co-authored four textbooks and four monographs, and has delivered more than 70 invited talks.
His honors include the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship, which supported his work at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. He also received the Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement from UB.
Mitin earned a doctorate from the Institute of Semiconductors at the Ukranian Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Ukraine.