Gerhard Klimeck

Gerhard Klimeck is a German-American scientist and author in the field of nanotechnology. The Director of nanoHUB, the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he formerly supervised technical projects for NASA's Applied Cluster Computing Technologies Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.^[1] He is a senior member of IEEE and member of American Physical Society.

Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University with a 4.0 GPA where he studied electron transport through quantum dots, resonant tunneling diodes and 2-D electron gases. His German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr University Bochum was concerned with the study of laser noise propagation. He was a Principal member of the technical staff at California Institute of Technology in 2003 and a former Research Associate at the University of Texas at Dallas.^[2]

His worked in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, genetic algorithms, and parallel image processing. Dr. Klimeck developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO 3-D) for multimillion atom simulations and continues to expand NEMO 1-D. 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, the Central Research Lab transitioned to the Applied Research Laboratory of Raytheon. The suite of NEMO 1-D, NEMO 3-D, and OMEN have been demonstrated to scale almost perfectly to 23,000, 8,192, and 22,720 cores on today's most advanced parallel computers in the world.

• U.S. 6490193: Forming and storing data in a memory cell
• U.S. 6667490: Method and system for generating a memory cell

• Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation (2010) CRC Press, ISBN 1420064835^[3]

• Dr. Klimeck won 9 NASA Tech Briefs from 2004-2007, ^[4] various NASA Software and Space Awards and Dr. Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication 2002^[5]

• Gerhard Klimeck (1999): Integrated Design and Optimization of Microelectronic Devices at NASA

• Gerhard Klimeck at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Gerhard Klimeck at Mendeley
• Gerhard Klimeck at ResearchGate
• Interview with Gerhard Klimeck
• Biography at National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors
• Gerhard Klimeck: Short Biography at Open Channel Foundation
• Gerhard Klimeck at Ohio State University
• Gerhard Klimeck: Conference Media Note in University of Michigan