Professor Porod received his Ph.D., June 1981, and his M.S., June 1979, at the Universität Graz, in Graz, Austria.

Areas of Interest
Solid State Physics and its Application to Solid State Electronics; Reliability, Degradation, and Breakdown; Quantum Devices and Architectures for Nanoelectronics; Limits Imposed by the Laws of Physics on Computation.