Vivian Rogers

About

Hi! I’m Vivian Rogers.1

I’m a PhD student in the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Electrical and Computer Engineering program, studying under Dr. Jean Anne Incorvia.

I broadly work on MRAM and spend my time thinking about novel schemes to extract information from nanomagnets, which are an incredible platform to store information — though CMOS-competitive readout remains challenging. I have metastatic interests in quantum transport theory, information theory, applied mathematics, spin glasses, and analog matrix–vector accelerators. At present I am finding great joy in stealing mathematics from condensed-matter theory and bodging it onto computer engineering. I am also growing and characterizing magnetic nitrides for novel multi-state MRAM.

Casually, I have 12 years of experience playing jazz trumpet, and have frustrated interests in pragmatism, analytic philosophy, and the desire to become more fluent in Hegel2. I love to discuss ethical philosophy, and especially the understated philosophy of engineering3. Ask me for one of my Heuristics.

1. This is historically somewhat complicated; see my ORCID.

2. Im moment hat der Hegel die Nase vorn.

3. see: The Garden — Contra teleological compartmentalization.