Rodney's Biography.
Dr. Rodney Daryl Slone was born on January 13, 1975 in Martin, Floyd County, KY. He graduated as Valedictorian from the June Buchanan High School in 1993. He finished a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Kentucky in 1996 (summa cum laude) and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Kentucky in 1997. In 2002 he completed his Ph. D. studies in Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University. As an undergraduate, he was a National Merit Scholar, a National Science Scholar, a Robert C. Byrd Scholar and received scholarships from the University of Kentucky. He was supported by the National Science Foundation during the summer of 1995 to research vibrating transmission lines. As a masters student, he was supported by fellowships from the University of Kentucky. During his Ph.D. studies, he was supported by fellowships from the Litton Foundation and Ansoft Corporation; he also taught Electrical Engineering courses at Ohio State and held an appointment as a Graduate Research Associate at the OSU ElectroScience Laboratory, where he was awarded "Dissertation of the Year" honors in 2002. Since graduation, he has been a member of the technical staff of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Design Group at Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, California. In 2005 he was promoted to a Senior Engineer at Sun. Dr. Slone is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In addition, he is a member of the Antennas and Propagation Society, the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-S), the Magnetics Society, and the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. He is a member of the EMC-S Technical Committee 9 (Computational EMC), and has served as a technical paper reviewer for several international journals and symposia. His areas of interest are model order reduction, computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, microwave circuits, high performance and parallel computing, and numerical analysis. Back to the Main Page