Supriyo Datta to Receive 2008 IEEE Kirchmayer Award
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(December 1, 2008) – The IEEE has named Supriyo Datta recipient of the 2008 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award for his innovative approach to the complex concepts of nanoelectronics and non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics.
Datta's classroom lectures are available to students around the world on nanoHUB.org (for example, see his lectures on Concepts of Quantum Transport.
Datta is an IEEE Fellow and the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He has inspired and educated thousands of graduate students through his unique approach to the complex concepts of nanoelectronics. A leading figure in the modeling and understanding of nanoscale electronic conduction, he laid the foundation for quantum-transport simulation tools based on the non-equilibrium Greens function formalism, and made pioneering contributions to the emerging fields of spintronics and molecular electronics.His teaching style emphasizes critical thinking in addition to technical problem-solving skills. Datta's classroom lectures are available on nanoHUB.org, created by the National Science Foundation-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Datta has received numerous awards for his work and has authored several books.
Datta's concepts along with those of his colleagues at Purdue are the foundation of a new way of thinking about nanoscale electronic devices, called Electronics from the Bottom Up and will be presented in the 2009 Summer School on Electronics from the Bottom Up.