# James T. Yardley, PhD

James T. Yardley is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where he serves as Director of the Center for Integrated Science and Engineering (CISE, formerly the Columbia Radiation Laboratory). Prof. Yardley is also Managing Director of the Columbia Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures, one of the NSF-sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers. He received a BS in Chemistry from Rice University in 1964 and PhD in Physical Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana from 1967 to 1977 where he received the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship and a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. He has co-authored over 110 research papers and is co-inventor on more than 25 issued US patents. Previously he served in a variety of research management positions and new business development positions at AlliedSignal Corp. (now Honeywell International).