While serving as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Mark Lundstrom also is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Purdue’s chief semiconductor officer reporting to Interim University President Mitch Daniels. Lundstrom also is a senior research fellow for the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy. During 2020, he served as acting dean for Purdue’s College of Engineering, and from 2022–2023, as interim dean of engineering.

Lundstrom began his career as an integrated circuit process development and manufacturing engineer, and since 1980, has been at Purdue, where his research and teaching have focused on the physics, modeling and simulation of semiconductor 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. Beginning in 1995, before the term “cloud computing” entered the vocabulary, Lundstrom founded nanoHUB, which for 30 years has offered online access to sophisticated electronic materials, devices and circuit simulation tools. The nanoHUB also was one of the very first to offer open-content educational resources and now serves a global community of millions.

Among Lundstrom’s recognitions for his career contributions to microelectronics research and education are the Semiconductor Industry Association’s University Researcher Award, the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Aristotle Award and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Cledo Brunetti Award and Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. He is a life fellow of IEEE and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering “for leadership in microelectronics and nanoelectronics through research, innovative education and unique applications of cyberinfrastructure.”