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Casey Miller

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs

Dean’s Office
College of Science

585-475-4148
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Casey Miller

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs

Dean’s Office
College of Science

Education

BA, Wittenberg University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Bio

Casey W. Miller is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs and Professor in the College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He graduated summa cum laude from Wittenberg University in 1999 with University and Physics Departmental Honors, where he was also elected to FBK. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, earning the Department’s Best Dissertation Award for work combining Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Scanning Probe Microscopy. His post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, focused on quantum tunneling of electrons between magnetic films. He is recipient of the NSF-CAREER and AFOSR-Young Investigator Awards. He served as Director of RIT's Materials Science & Engineering program, and Associate Director of the University of South Florida’s Applied Physics Ph.D. program.

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Areas of Expertise

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Journal Paper
Miller, Casey. "Scaling Law for Electrocaloric Temperature Change in Antiferroelectrics." Scientific Reports. (2016): --. Print.
Miller, Casey. "Spatial Evolution of the Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in an Exchange Graded lm." PRL. (2016): --. Print.
Miller, Casey W., et al. "Moderate positive spin Hall angle in uranium." Applied Physics Letters 107. 23 (2015): 232403--232403. Print.
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Invited Keynote/Presentation
Miller, Casey. "Enlightened Searches for Talent are Needed to Bring Newcomers into Physics." APS March Meeting. APS. Denver, CO. 2 Mar. 2014. Keynote Speech.
Miller, Casey. "Using Minimum Acceptable GRE Scores for Graduate Admissions Suppresses Diversity." American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting. American Astronomical Society. Winter Meeting, MD. 8 Jan. 2014. Keynote Speech.
Miller, Casey. "Admissions Criteria and Diversity in Graduate School." American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting. American Association of Physics Teachers. Washington DC, DC. 5 Jan. 2014. Keynote Speech.
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Invited Paper
Miller, C. W., D. D. Belyea, and B. J. Kirby. "Magnetocaloric Effect in Thin Films and Heterostructurestructures." J. Vac. Sci. Techn. A. (2014). Print.

In the News

  • January 24, 2019

    groups of students present posters to visitors

    GRE fails to identify successful Ph.D. students

    A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.

  • September 10, 2018

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    RIT wins collaborative award to improve STEM ecosystem

    RIT professor Casey Miller won $880,000 from the National Science Foundation INCLUDES program, which seeks to increase and strengthen efforts to create a diverse STEM workforce to meet the nation’s future needs and maintain its standing in research and development.