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Adjunct Associate Professor
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Biography

Benjamin Klein received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2000. From 2000-2003, Dr. Klein served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, carrying out theoretical analysis and computer simulations of next-generation semiconductor photonic devices. Dr. Klein first joined Georgia Tech as an ECE faculty member based at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus in 2003, and in 2012, he transferred to the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. Dr. Klein served as the School's associate chair for Graduate Affairs from January 2018-December 2020. In January 2021, he departed from Georgia Tech and became the chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kennesaw State University. 

Research
  • Nanowire semiconductor devices
  • Quantum nanostructures
  • Semiconductor radiation detectors
  • Photonic structures