Vijay Gupta, Gerhard Klimeck, and Santokh Badesha

The Purdue University Board of Trustees has ratified three faculty positions for the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The newly ratified positions are:

• Vijay Gupta, who was named the Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Gerhard Klimeck, who was named the Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Santokh Badesha, who was named a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Gupta joined Purdue in 2022 as a professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has made fundamental contributions in the control of networked and cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems integrate sensing, computation, control, networking and actuation into physical objects and infrastructure, connecting them to the internet and to each other. With applications spanning smart infrastructure systems, smart medicine, industrial control systems and robotics, among others, such systems hold the potential of fundamentally reshaping the world. Gupta has received several prestigious awards, including the 2018 Antonio J. Ruberti Award (given annually by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize outstanding achievements by a researcher under the age of 40 in control theory) and the 2013 Donald P. Eckman Award (given annually by the American Automatic Control Council to recognize outstanding achievements by a researcher under the age of 35 in control theory). He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Gupta also has been a co-author on several papers that won best student paper awards.

Klimeck, who earned a PhD from Purdue in 1994, worked at Texas Instruments and NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory before returning to the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 as a professor. 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 numbers from 500 to 2 million. His simulation apps have been adopted by over 100 universities, and annually over 8,000 students interactively explore semiconductor devices in formal classroom settings through the platform. His research focuses on multiscale and multiphysics modeling of nanodevices, with applications to today’s nanotransistors and quantum computing devices. Klimeck has received several prestigious awards, including being named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He been awarded six patents and has authored one book, 10 book chapters and more than 500 peer-reviewed journal articles and proceedings.

Badesha has been the adjunct innovation professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the College of Engineering since 2020. During a long career with Xerox Corp., he was recognized as one of the most prolific inventors in the firm’s history, and his inventions can be found in virtually every Xerox product today. He made groundbreaking contributions in digital printing technology while building significant links among industry, government and academia. Badesha has received numerous prestigious awards, including being a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and an honorary member of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. He is a co-inventor on 262 issued U.S. patents, with another 55 U.S. patents pending. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 journal papers and has written 10 book chapters and white papers.

Source: Purdue trustees ratify faculty positions, award posthumous degrees, approve name changes