Dr. Russell Deaton
Professor
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
Office: JBHT 517
Phone: (479) 575-5590
E-mail: rdeaton@uark.edu
WWW: http://csce.uark.edu/~rdeaton
Education
Teaching and Research
Biographical Information
Russell Deaton was born in Memphis, TN on November 3, 1958. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a BA with Honors in English and met his wife, Vicki, whom he married in 1981. His Honors thesis topic was Andrew Marvell's "Upon Appleton House." After getting his BS summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from Memphis State University in 1984, he worked for United Technologies - MOSTEK in Dallas, TX as a process engineer in charge of photolithography and etch on a 64K DRAM fabrication line.
He then worked for GE Semiconductor in the Research Triangle Park as a member of the technical staff. While working for GE, he went part-time to Duke University where he received his MS in Electrical Engineering. His MS thesis topic was anomalous arsenic diffusion in radiation damaged silicon. In 1988, he went back to school full-time to work on his Ph. D. at Duke University. He received his doctorate in 1992 with a dissertation topic of rapid thermal oxidation of silicon. He was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1992 to 2000 at the University of Memphis.
He left Memphis as an Associate professor for his current appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He has over 40 refereed journal and conference publications and over one million in external research funding during his career. His main current research interest is revolutionary computing systems based on biopolymers, such as DNA and proteins. In addition, he is a published poet, and father to a daughter, Katy, and son, Will.
