Purdue's Board of Trustees has ratified Professor Peide "Peter" Ye as the Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Professor Ye has been at Purdue since 2005. Before coming to Purdue, he worked for NTT, NHMFL/Princeton University and Bell Labs/Agere Systems.

His research includes semiconductor and physics devices, nano-structures and nano-fabrications among other areas. Professor Ye's work in semiconductor technologies is recognized nationally and internationally, and he has been credited with a series of research breakthroughs. Each one was significant enough to be deemed "field-defining."

He received his Ph.D. in condense matter physics from Max-Planck-Institute in Germany.