John D. Cressler is a professor and author.
He is the Schlumberger Chair Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990. He spent 8 1/2 years at IBM Research and 10 years on the faculty at Auburn University before joining Georgia Tech in 2002. His research interests center on the creative use of nanoscale-engineering techniques to enable new approaches to high-speed electronic design and utilization, as required to support the emerging global communications infrastructure. He and his students have published over 600 scientific papers in this field. He has received a number awards for both his research and his teaching, including the 2010 Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award (Georgia Tech’s top teaching award), the 2011 IEEE Leon Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (the IEEE’s top graduate teaching award), and the 2013 Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award (Georgia Tech’s highest faculty honor).
Emeralds of the Alhambra, his debut novel, and book one in the Anthems of al-Andalus series, was released in June 2013 by Sunbury Press. The second novel in the series, Shadows in the Shining City, was released by Sunbury Press in July of 2014. Cressler’s historical fiction is aimed at bringing alive medieval Muslim Spain using compelling love stories.
His non-fiction books include: Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (2003), Reinventing Teenagers: the Gentle Art of Instilling Character in Our Young People (2004), Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained Layer Epitaxy (2006), Silicon Earth: Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution (2009), and Extreme Environment Electronics (2013).Reinventing Teenagers and Silicon Earth are for general audiences.
John and his wife Maria have been married for more than 30 years and are the proud parents of three: Matthew, Christina and Joanna. Their two new additions to the family include Matt’s wife, Mary Ellen (and now baby Ellie!), and Christina’s husband, Michael (and now baby Owen!). John’s hobbies include hiking, gardening, bonsai, all things Italian, collecting (and drinking!) fine wines, cooking, history, and carving walking sticks, not necessarily in that order. He considers teaching and mentoring of young-folk to be his primary vocation, with his writing a close second!
