Laszlo B. Kish

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caption = Laszlo Bela Kish
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fields = Physicist and Electronic engineer
workplaces = Texas A&M
University of Uppsala
alma_mater = JATE
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academic_advisors = Laszlo Vize
Miklos Torok
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known_for = Kish cypher
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awards = Benzelius Prize (2001)
religion = Christian


footnotes = He changed his name from 'Kiss' to 'Kish' in 1998.

László Bela Kish is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&MUniversity. He is notable for the Kish cypher and the Kish-Sethuraman cypher.

Education

He received his MS in physics from Attila József University(JATE), Hungary, 1980; and a PhD in Solid State Physics, at JATE in1984. He had no official PhD adviser, though his mentors were Laszlo Vizeand Miklos Torok. He received a Docent in Solid State Physics (habilitation) from Uppsala University, Sweden in 1994. He received a Doctor ofScience (Physics), from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Career

He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is the foundation Editor-in-Chief of "Fluctuation and Noise Letters" and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journalof "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology". He coauthored the innovative HTML document available for download from Amazon, "The Dancer and the Piper: Resolving Problems with Government Research Contracting". His research interests lie in the physics of noise and fluctuations. Kish is co-founder of theinternational conference series "Fluctuations and Noise" (with D. Abbott).

Honors

He won the 2001 Benzelius Prize of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsalafor his activities in chemical sensing.

ee also

*"Quantum Aspects of Life"
*Kish cypher

External links

* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=112857 Kish's math genealogy]
* [http://www.ee.tamu.edu/People/bios/bkish.html Kish's homepage]