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.
Since 2002 he helped to expand nanoHUB.org to a national and global service of over 2 million visitors today. In 2005 his nanoHUB team released the first end-to-end scientific computing cloud and simple-to-use Apps wrapped around complex simulation tools. These simple to use apps have been rapidly adopted by faculty who taught over 4,000 courses with over 100,000 students in total.
NEMO, the nanoelectronic modeling software built in his research groups at TI, JPL, and Purdue established the state-of-the-art in atomistic quantum transport modeling. NEMO1D was the first predictive quantum transport simulation tool for resonant tunning diodes and was based on the non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) methodology. NEMO3D enabled for the first time electronic structure claculations for quantum dots with several million atoms. NEMO5 is general enough for 1D, 2D, and 3D devices for transport and electronic structure claculations. NEMO5 is now being used at Intel for advanced transistor designs and commercialized by Silvaco.
Gerhard published over 525 printed scientific articles that resulted in over 23,000 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.”
Shorter blurb on Semiconductor modeling:
I am a chaired Purdue Professor in Electrical Engineering and have worked on quantum transport since 1990. Our team at Texas Instruments built NEMO1D 1994-98 and established the first fully predictive transport model for resonant-tunneling-diodes via the non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGF). We were the first to use an atomistic representation for realistic devices. Developments to full 2D and 3D devices established atomistic NEGF as state-of-the-art. All major semiconductor manufacturers supported NEMO developments and NEMO5 designs transistors today. I published over 520 reviewed articles and was elected fellow of IEEE, APS, IOP, AAAS, and Humboldt foundation citing these accomplishments.
A blurb on HPC computing and impact:
Klimeck is the Elmore Chair Professor at the Elmore Family School of Electrical Engineering and the Riley Director of the Center for Predictive Devices and Materials and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. He earned a PhD from Purdue in 1994, worked at Texas Instruments and NASA/JPL and returned in 2003. In the JPL High-Performance-Computing Group he embraced affordable cluster computing on Beowulf #2 built by Thomas Sterling. At Purdue he advocated for shared cluster resources and worked with CIOs Jim Bottum and Gerry McCarney on policies and scaling a community cluster model that has gained national attention. His research focuses on quantum transport in nanodevices through multiscale and multiphysics modeling, with applications to today’s nanotransistors and quantum computing devices. Since 2011 his research group demonstrated scaling of OMEN & NEMO5 codes to over 200,000 cores. 2015 Intel purchased a top100 ranked cluster to run NEMO5 to design transistors. As technical director and later director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology, he established nanoHUB.org as a global cyberinfrastructure and helped to grow the annual user base from 500 to 2 million. His simulation apps have been adopted by over 100 universities, and annually over 9,000 students interactively explore semiconductor devices and materials in formal classroom settings. His nanoHUB lectures, tutorials, and courses have been viewed by over 1.1 million users. Klimeck is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the German Humboldt Foundation. He been awarded six patents, has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles and proceedings, and presented as invited speaker at over 470 conferences and seminars.
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