
Dr. R. Stanley Williams
Adjunct Professor, UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry
R. Stanley Williams is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Senior Fellow and Senior Vice President. His primary scientific research has been in the areas of solid-state chemistry and physics, and their application to technology. More recently, he has been focused on the dynamical properties of electrons, ions and photons in nanostructures and their applications for computation and cognition. In 2008, a team of researchers he led announced that they had built and demonstrated the first intentional memristor, the fourth fundamental electronic circuit element predicted by Prof. Leon Chua in 1971.
Dr. Williams has received widespread recognition for business, scientific and academic achievement, including being named one of the top 10 visionaries in the field of electronics by EETimes, the 2014 IEEE Outstanding Engineering Manager Award, the 2009 EETimes Innovator of the Year ACE Award, the 2007 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal for contributions to Chemistry, the 50th Anniversary Laureate Lecturer on Electrical and Optical Materials for the TMS, the 2004 Herman Bloch Medal for Industrial Research, the inaugural Scientific American 50 Top Technology leaders in 2002, and the 2000 Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics. He was a co-organizer and co-editor of the workshop and book “Vision for Nanotechnology in the 21st Century”, respectively, that led to the establishment of the U. S. National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000.