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Gerhard Klimeck Ph.D.

Dr. Klimeck's research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, and genetic algorithms.

Gerhard Klimeck is the Technical Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since Dec. 2003. He was the Technical Group Supervisor at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Gerhard developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO 3-D) for multimillion atom simulations. Previously he was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments where he served as manager and principal architect of the Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO 1-D) program. Dr. Klimeck's work is documented in over 160 peer-reviewed publications and over 270 conference presentations. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of APS, HKN and TBP.

Education

Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University and his German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr-University Bochum.

Career Highlights

Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Technical Director of the NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology 12/03-present
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Principal Member of Technical Staff 9/01-present
Technical Group Supervisor, Applied Cluster Computing Technology Group 4/02-12/03
Senior Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Group 2/98-9/01
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Corporate Research and Development 9/95-2/98
(transitioned to Raytheon TI Systems, Applied Research Laboratories 8/97).
Member of Technical Staff - Nanoelectronics Research Group
University of Texas at Dallas, School of Engineering, Lecturer, 5/97-8/9
University of Texas at Dallas, School of Engineering, Post-doctoral Research Assistant, 2/94-9/95
Purdue University, School of Engineering, Research Assistant - Supervisor: Professor Supriyo Datta, 9/90-1/94
Ruhr-University Bochum, School of Engineering, Research Assistant - Supervisor: Professor Eckhard Kneller, 2/88-8/88

Awards

• Co/Author of over 614 publications: 84 journal, 82 proceedings, 273 conf., 153 sem./review, 22 Reports
• JPL Dr. Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication 2002.
• 11 NASA software, NASA Space Act, and NASA Tech Brief Awards
• Two US Patents 6,490,193 and 6667490, memory cells in RTDs.
• Texas Instruments Award for timely delivery of the Phase II NEMO software.
• DARPA Award to Raytheon-TI Systems: Sustained Excellence by a Performer in FY97.
• Scholarships: Purdue Fee Remission Award, National Science Foundation of Germany.
• Member of ηκν EE Honor Society, τβπ Engineering Honor Society, IEEE (senior) and APS.
• Tae Kwon Do 2nd degree black belt.

Books

• Publication count (excl. submissions) as of April 2007:
- Peer reviewed journals: 84
- Technical Reports: 22
- Peer reviewed proceedings: 82
- Invited Seminars: 72
- Invited conference papers: 92
- Technical Program Reviews 51
- Contributed conference papers: 181
- Technical Briefings 30

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