Purdue University
Katherine Ngai Pesic & Silvaco Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ABOUT ME
In 2009, I graduated to PhD with Professor Peter Vogl at the Technische Universität München (Garching, Germany) in theoretical semiconductor physics. In 2010, I joined Purdue University as a postdoc and since 2011 as Research Assistant Professor. Since 2022, I have been Associate Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
My work embraces developing and implementing new computational methods in the framework nanodevice and quantum transport modeling for established and exotic semiconductors, metals, insulators, and their interfaces in subatomic resolution. Our code implementations enter the Quantum Code Library at Purdue University. This is a massively parallel code library centered around atomistic quantum mechanics and quantum transport algorithms with applications in nanotechnology, chemistry, and material science.
My team and I regularly develop new transistors, sensors, and nanodevices with high commercial value. Most of my and my team’s device concepts and simulation methods are patent protected and commercialized by various industrial licensees.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nonequilibrium Green's function method
Widening the application space of the most general quantum transport method
Realistic charge, heat and spin transport in nanodevices
Treating coherent and incoherent physics on equal footing
High performance computing
Implementing computational models on large scale supercomputers and heterogeneous architectures
Expanding concepts of quantum models
Including but not limited to swarm robots, neuronal networks, nanobiology and nanochemistry
2003 - 2009
Technische Universität München, Germany
Ph.D. in Theoretical Semiconductor Physics
Focus: Nonequilibrium Green’s function method, incoherent scattering, electron and spin transport
Thesis Title: Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures
1998 - 2003
Technische Universität München, Germany
Diploma in General Physics
Focus: Analytical derivation of quantum corrections to the spin Boltzmann equation
Dissertation title: Spintransport im Halbleiter
(Spintransport in Semiconductors)