Now you can watch the keynotes that took place during the OpenInfra Summit in Berlin!
for distributed and high performance computing for data science
Roger H. French is the Kyocera Professor in the Dept. of Materials Science and Eng. in the Case School of Engineering, with secondary appointments in Macromolecular Science, Biomedical Eng. and Physics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio, since August 2010.
He is director of the SDLE Research Center, focused on lifetime and degradation science of long-lifetime environmentally exposed technologies such as photovoltaics.
He is the faculty director of the CWRU Applied Data Science Program
Before this he was in Central Research and Development at the DuPont Co. in Wilmington, Delaware since 1985 and was Adjunct Professor of Materials Science at the University of Pennsylvania since 1996.
He received his B. S. in Materials Science from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Prof. R. L. Coble.
French's research focuses on optical properties and electronic structure of optical materials, polymers, ceramics.
These determine the vdW interactions which drive wetting of interfaces and mesoscale assembly biomolecular and inorganic systems including CNTs, proteins and DNA.
His energy research focuses on lifetime and degradation science. He is developing Energy CRADLE, a Hadoop-based data science and analytics environment for mesoscale temporal evolution modeling of complex systems. This allows multi-factor real-world performance to be integrated with lab-based datasets to identify mechanisms and pathways activated over lifetime.
His work has produced 25 issued patents and more than 170 published papers.
French is a Fellow of the American Ceramics Society. He is a participant in Task 13 on Performance and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems of the Intl. Energy Agency, PVPS.
Specialties: Materials Science, Optical Spectroscopy, Electronic Structure, Ellipsometry, Computational Optics. Ceramics, Polymers, Optical Materials, Photovoltaics, Reliability, Lifetime and Degradation Science.
