Dr. Frank Walks on Water
Photo credit: William Doyle

Dr. Michael P. Frank, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
mpf@eng.fsu.edu, cell (850) 597-2046

Hello! Since Fall 2010, I have been a half-time adjunct faculty member in the ECE department in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. I am presently (in 2011-2012) teaching the Senior Design Project course. Since late 2008, I have also been working half-time in the Astroparticle & Cosmic Radiation Detector Research & Development Laboratory in the Department of Physics at Florida A&M University.

In Fall 2008-Spring 2009, I was a Postdoctoral Associate working under Dr. Uwe-Meyer Baese, also in the ECE department.  We developed a novel quantum computer simulator that uses only linear space (most existing ones require exponential space). I also gave one lecture of Fields I in the Spring 2009 semester.

From 2004-2007, I was a tenure-track faculty member (assistant professor) in this department, teaching computer engineering courses in subjects such as digital logic, microprocessors and computer architecture.   From 1999-2004, I was an assistant professor in the CISE department in the University of Florida’s College of Engineering, where I taught discrete math, computer organization, and computer architecture.  At both schools, I have occasionally also taught my own unique research survey course (technical elective) on the physical limits of computing.

My primary research interests are in the areas of the fundamental physics of computing (with an emphasis on the study of fundamental physical limits on computing), novel nanoelectronic and quantum-electronic technologies for digital logic, and fundamental new computing paradigms that will be important for efficient computing at the nanoscale, including reversible computing and quantum computing.  I also have an interest in computational methods for multi-domain physical simulation of nanoelectronic devices (in support of the aforementioned goals), and in technologies and infrastructures for high-performance computing that are suitable for supporting such applications.  Finally, I have an interest in the development of new secure electronic voting methods.

For more information, click one:
Current Projects	Recent Publications

Here are some miscellaneous other links of mine, until I get time to better organize the content on this site:

Research & teaching-related links:

• Photos from the ECE Senior Design Fair, April 5^th, 2012.
• RC’05 – 1^st International Workshop on Reversible Computing, a special session I organized at the ACM Computing Frontiers conference, held in Ischia, Italy, in May 2005.
• Syllabus and Lecture slides for the most recent (Spr. ’06) edition of my Physical Limits of Computing course.
• Course materials from the Spring 2007 edition of my Digital Logic course. (No longer the most recent edition; needs updating.)

Miscellaneous other links:

• Be a responsible citizen of the world, and educate yourself about Global Warming, which is by far the gravest threat facing our planet today.  Here’s how.
• According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project’s database, I’m academically descended from a number of famous mathematicians including Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Fourier, Gauss, Ohm, Poisson, Jacobi, Dirichet, and Klein.
• Here are a couple of short memos written by me (mostly for fun) discussing (new) graphical representations of (old) normative meanings of the nonprintable ASCII characters.
• Old home page at UF (still available but no longer being actively updated)
• Another new homepage just barely under construction at HCS.
• Join the Range Voting movement!  Help to promote improved decision-making by our democracy!  Range Voting, a.k.a. “Score them all” voting, used e.g. in the Olympics, has been mathematically proven to yield lower expected “Bayesian regret”—and on average better overall electoral decisions—than any other voting system.  It also offers many other benefits.   See the website for more details.