Paul Palmberg Professor Tony Low among most highly cited researchers

Paul Palmberg Professor Tony Low has been named one of the most influential researchers of 2024 in the cross-field category by Clarivate Analytics, an insights and analytics firms. The list recognizes researchers across the world whose papers rank in the top 1 percent of citations for their field(s). 

Low is a widely known authority on the theory and design of nanophotonics and nanoelectronics devices based on 2D materials. His research in the area is published in premier journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Communication, Nature Materials, Science Advances, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, and Physical Review Letters. Low is the recipient of several awards that recognize his work and its far-reaching impact. These include the University’s McKnight Presidential Fellowship (2019), IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (2014), IBM Invention Award (2013), KITP Rice Family Fund Fellowship (2012), Singapore Millennium Fellowship (2007), and the IEEE Electron Device Society Fellowship (2005).

Low received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2008. He subsequently joined the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University as a postdoctoral research associate. In spring 2011 he joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research associate, and also served as an industry assignee to the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative funded by the Semiconductor Research Consortium, tasked with finding the next breakthrough electronic switch. In 2014, he moved to academia, joining ECE as an assistant professor in September of that year.

Read more about the honor in CSE's coverage of the story.

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