
Professor
Mark S. Lundstrom
Purdue University
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Engineering and Technology
Elected
2025
Mark Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and currently serves as Senior Advisor to the President and as Purdue’s Chief Semiconductor Officer. He has also served as Purdue’s Dean of Engineering twice.
Lundstrom was born and grew up in Minnesota, near Lake Woebegon. He earned his BEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. at Purdue University and began his career in industry working on semiconductor research and manufacturing. His research and teaching at Purdue have focused on semiconductor materials and devices. He is best known for his work on the scaling limits of MOSFETs, which supported the design and manufacturing of transistors at the 10 nanometer length scale. He also founded nanoHUB, one of the very first examples of cloud computing, which for 29 years has offered online access to semiconductor simulation tools and open-content educational resources to a global community.
Lundstrom has authored numerous research papers and is the author of six books. He has received several awards for his teaching, research, and outreach and was elected to the U.S. National Ƶ of Engineering for leadership in microelectronics and nanoelectronics. In 2024, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb named Lundstrom a “Sagamore of the Wabash,” the highest recognition awarded by the governor, for his contributions to semiconductors in Indiana.
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