Gerhard Klimeck

Elmore Chaired Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vice President for Academic Information Technology and Deputy CIO · Purdue University · company speakers →

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. Previously he worked at the central research Laboratory of Texas Instruments and NASA/JPL/Caltech. His research interest is in computational nanoelectronics, high-performance computing, and data analytics. He helped to create nanoHUB.org, the largest virtual nanotechnology user facility serving that served over 15 million users. He led the teams that developed the NEMO software tools. Dr. Klimeck is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the German Humboldt Foundation. He has published over 525 printed scientific articles; he has been recognized for his co-invention of a single-atom transistor, quantum mechanical modeling theory, and simulation tools. His NEMO5 software has been used since 2015 at Intel to design nano-scaled design transistors. The nanoHUB team was recently recognized by a top 100 by R&D award – Making simulation and data pervasive.

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