canniff@umich.edu University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, MSE Justin received his B.S. degree in MSE from UIUC in 2007 and his PhD from UM in 2014, with a thesis entitled, "Formation and Properties of Ion-Induced Nanoparticles in SiNx ".  As a research fellow at UM, he explored the nanoscale origins of ion-induced fractal formation in SiNx.  He also worked toward the development novel pump-probe approaches aimed at understanding the preferential scattering of acoustic phonons by the fractals.  Dr. Canniff has been employed at Lam Research since 2014.