Gerhard Klimeck

Gerhard Klimeck is the Elmore Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and leads two research centers in Purdue's Discovery Park. He is also Vice President for Academic Information Technology and Deputy CIO. He helped to create nanoHUB.org which now serves over 2.0 million users globally. In 2005 His nanoHUB team built the first end-to-end scientific computing cloud and simple-to-use Apps wrapped around complex simulations. Previously he worked with Texas Instruments and NASA/JPL/Caltech. His research interest is in computational nanoelectronics, high performance computing, and data analytics. NEMO, the nanoelectronic modeling software built in his research group established the state-of-the-art in atomistic quantum transport modeling. NEMO is now being used at Intel for advanced transistor designs and commercialized by Silvaco. He published over 525 printed scientific articles that resulted in over 23,500 citations and an h-index of 74 in Google Scholar. Together with physicist Michelle Simmons of the University of New South Wales, he "devised a way to make a single-atom transistor", which ranked #29 top invention of 2013 by Discover Magazine. In 2020 the nanoHUB team was awarded a R&D 100 award for “nanoHUB: Democratizing Learning and Research”. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), of IEEE, of AAAS and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany). The Oct. 2020 AAAS Fellow citation reads ”For the quantum mechanical modeling theory and simulation tools to design today's nanotransistors and for leadership of the global nanotechnology community as Director of nanoHUB.”