Vita

Dr. Gerhard Klimeck is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and serves as the Associate Director for Technologies of the National Science Foundation Network for Computational Nanotechnology since Dec. 2003. Before he was the technical group supervisor of the Applied Cluster Computing Technologies Group since April 2002 and a Principal member at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory since Sept. 2001 after jonwing JPL in February 1998 as a Senior member technical staff. Previously he was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments (which transitioned to the Applied Research Laboratory of Raytheon). For the NCN he has been directing the replacement of web-form driven online simulation by fully interactive simulations. The change in technology resulted in a six-fold growth of simulation user numbers in just over 2 years to over 5,900 annual users. His research interest is in the quantum mechanical modeling of electron transport through nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, genetic algorithms, and parallel image processing. At Purdue he continues to push tight-binding based simulation technology for basic and applied device physics at the nanometer scale utilizing these technical components. At JPL he explore the nanoelectronic design space and has developed the 3-D Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO 3-D) that enables the analysis of electronic structure in systems containing as many as 52 million atoms. He continues to expand NEMO 1-D to study hole transport, optical devices and spintronic devices. His work on mars image processing enabled the integration of parallel processing algorithms in the MIPL data analysis pipeline. At Texas Instruments he served as manager and principal architect of the Nanoelectronic Modeling ( NEMO ) program. Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University where he studied electron transport through quantum dots, resonant tunneling diodes and 2-D electron gases. His research for his German electrical engineering degree which he obtained in 1990 from Ruhr-University Bochum concerned the study of laser noise propagation. Dr. Klimeck's work is documented in over 180 peer reviewed publications and over 300 conference presentations, and over invited 130 seminars/reviews. He is a senior member of IEEE, and member of APS, HKN and TBP.

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