Benjamin D.B. Klein (PhD '00) takes on the new role after fifteen years as an ECE faculty member at Georgia Tech.
Written by Julia Sullivan, ECE ILLINOIS
Benjamin D.B. Klein, photo provided by Georgia TechECE ILLINOIS alumnus Benjamin D.B. Klein (PhD '00) has been appointed as associate chair for Graduate Affairs in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
“I’m looking forward to continuing the upward trajectory of our graduate research and education program here in ECE at Georgia Tech,” Klein said in a news release from Georgia Tech. “In particular, we will aggressively recruit a diverse group of the top graduate school applicants to join our program.”
Following his doctorate from Illinois, he was a post doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, working on semiconductor quantum dot-based devices. He joined Georgia Tech as an ECE faculty member at the Savannah campus, then moved to the Atlanta campus in 2012. His research involves the theory, modeling, and design of semiconductor optoelectronic devices, including vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, LEDs, scintillator neutron detectors, and solar cells.