Areas of major interest are semiconductor device physics and analysis, high doping effects, heterojunctions, and carrier transport.

       Alan H. Marshak received the BS degree from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL in 1960, the MS degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1962, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1969. He was a National Science Foundation Graduate Trainee at Arizona. His doctoral research, with D. J. Hamilton, was in the area of impurity atom diffusion.

        In 1978, he became a professor at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. In July 1983, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His previous academic experience includes: visiting professor (1979) at the University of Florida, Gainesville, associate professor (1973-78) and assistant professor (1969-73) at Louisiana State University. His research and teaching have focused on semiconductor device physics and analysis. He has published over 55 technical papers in this and related areas and is a coauthor of a textbook on semiconductor device modeling. He has acted as principal investigator on numerous research projects and grants and has given many invited lectures. His current research is mainly on carrier transport in solids with position-dependent band structure, like graded heterojunctions and devices with highly doped regions.

        Dr. Marshak acts as a referee for several international journals and as a reviewer for two major book companies. He has provided professional service on numerous national panels and committees. He is currently editor for device and process modeling of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. Since 1992, he has been chairman and CEO of the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education. He is a member of Sigma Xi. In 1988, he was elected a Fellow (indicating unusual distinction) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for "contributions to the physics and analysis of devices with nonuniform band structure." In 1993, he was named the F. H. Coughlin/CLECO Professor of Electrical Engineering.