Robert D. Miller received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University and spent a postdoctoral year at Union Carbide Research Institute in Tarrytown NY working on flash vacuum pyrolysis and matrix isolation spectroscopy of reactive intermediates. He joined IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights NY after his postdoctoral year and moved to the San Jose Research laboratory in 1972. His research activities have included: basic photochemical processes and mechanisms, radiation sensitive polymers and microlithography, synthetic methods utilizing multifunctional synthons, synthetic applications of strained ring materials, spectroscopy and chemistry of reactive intermediates, new polymeric materials for nonlinear optics, polymeric light emitting diodes, novel polymeric architectures, silicon and germanium containing polymers, controlled polymerization techniques, functionalized organic and inorganic nanoparticles, materials for molecular and organic electronics, organic materials for magnetic storage, polymeric electronic materials for semiconductor applications, nanoporous thin films for Bioscience, Optics and Photonics, photovoltaic materials and structures, sublithographic self assembly using block copolymers, air bridge dielectrics, radiation definable dielectrics, solution and CVD precursors for low-k applications, materials for advanced battery applications, polymers for biomedical applications, materials/systems for gas phase analyte sensing and others. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Chemical Reviews and Advanced Functional Materials. During his career, he has received five IBM awards for outstanding technical achievements, 43 invention plateau awards and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and is an IBM Master Inventor. Dr Miller was elected a Fellow of the Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) in 2006, the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2007 and the American Chemical Society in 2011. In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is the recipient of the 2010 American Chemical Society award for Chemistry of Materials. Dr. Miller retired from the IBM Research Division in 2017, is currently an adjunct Professor at Stanford University in Material Science & Engineering. He is a co-inventor on more than 160 patents and patent publications, has published more than 400 articles in archival technical journals and is an associate editor for Science Advances. He also serves on various committees associated with the NAE and NRC.