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Paul R. BergerProfessorElectrical and Computer Engineering Physics Founder
Founder/Director
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He has received $10.24M in USA funding as lead PI, with an additional $26.2M as Co-PI in USA and €15.7M in funding through his Finnish partnerships. Altogether, he has received ~$55.4M in research funding.
His former graduate students have gone on to become university faculty, founders of their own semiconductor companies and employees at major semiconductor companies (e.g. Intel, AMD, Cree, Kopin, Naval Research Laboratory, Micron, Spansion, National Semiconductor and Lockheed Martin) and postdocs at (Illinois, Johns Hopkins, etc.). His undergraduate researchers have also gone on to graduate school at preeminent institutions such as MIT, Berkeley, Texas at Austin, Brown, UCLA, Washington, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Michigan, Ohio State and Delaware.
Prof. Berger was the proud recipient of two separate 2014 awards. The Franklin County Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers first awarded Berger their Outstanding Engineering Educator award "in recognition of his outstanding contribution and demonstrated ability to link engineering education with professional practice and to promote the engineering profession and the goals and objectives of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers" This Franklin Country award then allowed Berger's nomination to compete amongst all 88 counties of Ohio to culminate in the Outstanding Engineering Educator, representing the entire State of Ohio and all engineering disciplines as bestowed by the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers. The second plaque's inscription read "in recognition of his teaching and professional expertise, selfless service to promoting excellence in engineering education and for his dedication to the students of The Ohio State University and the engineering profession".
And in 2023, Berger won the Outstanding Engineering Educator Award for his ongoing services to the eight-state IEEE Region 2. IEEE, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications,conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. Berger is being recognized for his service to IEEE Region 2, which extends from Eastern Indiana to Southern New Jersey, including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, the National Capital Region of D.C. and Northern Virginia.
Further, Berger was the 2009 recipient of OSU's College of Engineering - Faculty Diversity Excellence Award for "for actively recruiting, retaining, training and promoting a diverse group of high school, undergraduate and graduate researchers and instilling in them a sense of self-pride and yearning for excellence." In 2010, Berger launched a group of underrepresented engineers that eventually galvanized into the Recruitment and Retention Initiative for Successful Engineers, club for which Berger serves as the seminal faculty advisor. In the Spring 2011, RISE fostered an outreach event in conjunction with the Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Columbus to reach 300 middle school students in 24 Columbus schools. Greater details can be found at: Paper Speakers Bring Music to the Ears of Future Engineers.
Through his role as Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Undergraduate Student Chapter, Prof. Berger seeks to expose undergraduate underclassmen to different areas of the broad ECE discipline in order for them to properly select the career path that works best for themselves. The IEEE Student Chapter also seeks ways to break down the barriers between students and faculty. Berger is also the Faculty Advisor for the IEEE Graduate Student Body, which is the first IEEE GSB in the world! IEEE GSB addresses graduate level issues and concerns complementary to the IEEE Undergraduate Student Chapter, such as "H-1B Visas: Politics behind the Policies" and "Panel Discussion: Post-Doctoral Positions."
Prof. Berger has also taken on the Faculty Advisor role for the OSU's Solar Education and Outreach club, which has gone to Haiti for alternative Spring Breaks to install photovoltaic power systems atop Haiti schools, which further empowers programs such as "One Laptop per Child." Additionally, the group seeks to promote greater awareness of alternative clean and green energy, such as installing solar cell powered motion detector lights around off-campus housing to promote off-campus safety. An excellent video highlighting past activities is posted on YouTube as a Berger seminar for IEEE Brasil,
Starting in 2019, Berger personally mobilized a Solar Service Learning trip to Tanzania (May 2019) through the CoE to electrify remote orphanages and other off-grid schools. Berger worked tirelessly with Leslie Roberts (Callihan) at the Office of International Affairs to create a second-half Spring (1 credit) and May (3 credits) service learning courses for this activity. Enrollment permitted up to 16 OSU students to participate. During May 7-23, 2019, Berger traveled with the OSU student delegation to first research the local needs tempered with local supplies. Then Berger coached the team to design, build and install a solar powered LED lighting system: 500 Watts powering 30 bulbs. A beautiful video composed by Tamir Yankevich captures the Tanzanian moments well.
In 2003, Prof. Berger established a consortium within the State of Ohio for nanoscale patterning of like-minded organizations by creating a cost-center laboratory with state-of-the-art electron beam lithography (EBL) facilities complete with trained personnel to help assist and train a diversified user base. The EBL tool is a powerful 100 kV system that is in the process of being installed and became operational in late Fall 2005. It is hoped that this will be a lightning rod for nanotechnology in the State of Ohio and the Midwest region for any academic or industrial users that need to write patterns at the nanometer scale and perform subsequent processing.
Berger was elected to the IEEE Electron Device Society’s (EDS) Board of Governors (2019-2024). He was re-elected to BoG unanimously in 2021 for a second 3-year term.
Berger was the seminal EDS Vice President of Strategic Directions (2020-2021). Strategic Directions is responsible for development of strategy with implementation oversight for all of EDS. It develops and recommends plans to the President and Executive Committee (ExCom) for strategic activities in the EDS fields of interest for long-term EDS health, in alignment with the EDS Strategic Goals. A key objective of the SDC is to formulate bold 20-Year Initiatives with an actionable 5-Year Plan. The decadal initiatives are measurable and strategic that take the long view. In this new role, key Roadmapping for EDS began by working with IEEE Future Directions, where EDS has already signed memorandums of understandings with Internet of Things and Smart Village, with Rebooting. Through this seminal role, Berger led EDS to also participate the IEEE Brain and IEEE Quantum FDC communities. Berger also helped foment two new EDS technical committees titled Neuromorphics and Quantum. Berger also ran an EDS Past/Present Member Survey to assess overall satisfaction.
Berger then became the Chair, Ad Hoc EDS Future Directions Committee (2022-2023) and Member EDS Strategic Directions Committee (2022-2023). With the new VP of Strategic Directions EDS staff and EDS President, Berger co-led the first major IEEE EDS strategic Retreat to fundamentally outline the EDS future (June 2022). Adopted EDS Core Values that were affirmed by the EDS BoG [trustful, respectful, inclusive, ethical, and open] and which were guiding principles throughout the deliberations and discussions Key performance indicators (KPI) were proposed and refined that will lead to an EDS Dashboard, tracking our EDS progress, holding our EDS community accountable for positive change. This will be key for an iterative deployment plan, baking in a feedback loop.
Berger is an active member of the IEEE Women in EDS Committee, where his work through the IEEE member portal, Collabratec, Berger has implemented a mentoring program, working with young professionals all-around the world. In the IEEE EDS Newsletter’s The Young Professionals section (October 2022), Berger published an interesting article telling how to use the IEEE Collabratec platform for mentoring young people starting or willing to start their professional careers in the Electron Devices discipline. Based on his own positive experience, Paul encourages experienced members of the Society to try sharing their own experience and expertise with young people: “Mentoring is a valuable tool for the most senior 3000 members to reach out to the most junior 3000 in order to mentor and life coach.”
Berger is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (J-FLEX). See: IEEE J-FLEX webpage and IEEE J-FLEX Xplore Library Leading IEEE in the world of flexible electronics through the creation of this new multi-society journal (EDS, SC, CASS). IEEE branding will explore ways that IEEE can validate flexible electronics as the field matures and enters the marketplace. Launched August 24, 2021. Inaugural issue January 2022. Editor-in-Chief Elect and Associate Editor-in-Chief (2021-2022). Editor-in-Chief (2023-2024).
Berger was Vice Chair, EDS Ad Hoc Materials Initiative Committee (2022-2023). The Core team proposed the new IEEE Transactions on Materials for Electron Devices (T-MAT). Presented Phase 1 and 2 Proposal to IEEE PerCom (June 2023). Approved by PerCom (June 2023) Co-developed T-MAT artwork with seminal EiC and established Scholar One portal and webpage (August 2023). Appointed Associate Editor T-MAT with first issue in January 2024. See: IEEE T-MAT webpage and IEEE T-MAT Xplore Library.
Berger is on the Advisory Board, IEEE Transactions on Devices and Materials Reliability (2022-2025) See: IEEE T-DMR Xplore Library.
Berger is the assigned mentor for the newly adopted (November 2023) IEEE Journal on Data Descriptions (IEEE-DATA).
In the Summer of 2000, Prof. Berger joined The Ohio State University as an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Solid State Electronics and Photonics Area. In the Fall of 2001, Prof. Berger was extended a Courtesy Appointment in the OSU Physics Department. In 2003, Prof. Berger was promoted to Full Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Prof. Berger is co-Director of the Department's 4000 sq. foot Nanofabrication and Materials Processing Center (NanoMPC) and has sparked a re-birth and significant growth of the current NanoMPC facility. A key facet of this expansion is Berger's role as Founder of the Nanoscale Patterning Laboratory that is a State of Ohio resource offering electron beam lithography (EBL) services and equipment to the scientific community. The Leica EBPG 5000 EBL system is a multi-million dollar investment by the Ohio Board of Regents. Prof. Berger is also a key member of the Ohio State Polymer Consortium and organized their first annual meeting.
Prof. Berger has co-authored over 137 refereed journal articles, over 28 Plenary, Panelist and Invited talks, over 35 IEEE EDS Distinguished Lectures, over 116 conference presentations, 5 book sections and generated 60+ invention disclosures, resulting in 26 issued patents with 2 more pending, and 2 startup license agreements. In 1990, Prof. Berger received a U. S. Army Fellowship. He has been included in American Men & Women of Science since 1992; Who's Who in Science and Engineering since 1998; and Who's Who in America.
He is a Fellow (2011) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS), IEEE Photonics Society Society (PHO), and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). Currently, he serves as the Chair for the IEEE joint EDS/Photonics Columbus Chapter. In addition, he was Chair of the EDS technical committee on Electronic Materials (2018-2019) and a member of their Flexible Electronics committee (2018-2019). He was also an SRC Vice-Chair for IEEE EDS in Regions 1-3,7 (2015-2018).
Berger hosted as General Chair the 2021 IFETC (IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference) and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the new IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, assuming the role as Editor-in-Chief (January 2023). In addition, he is an elected member-at-large to the IEEE EDS Board of Governors (19’-24’), where he is was the seminal Vice President of Strategic Directions (20’-21’). Berger is also a core part of the IEEE EDS Strategic Planning team in 2022 and the EDS Ad Hoc Materials Initiative Committee. Berger is also the EDS Steering Committee representive to IEEE Brain and IEEE Quantum, as well as EDS representive to IEEE TAB Ad Hoc Committee on Climate Change (2022-2023); IEEE TAB Committee on Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022); and IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (2022-2023).
Berger is Vice Chair, Columbus Chapter (elected 2021-2022, relected 2023-2024), which won 2022 MGA Outstanding Medium Section Award.
In 2011, he was established as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for EDS. Please contact him directly if you are interested in a seminar: Possible seminar topics include:
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