MICHAEL NIEMIER
Michael Niemier is on the fast track to the future.
By age twenty-seven, Niemier had earned a Ph.D., joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in the College of Computing and been nominated for MIT's Technology Review list of the nation's top young innovators in technology.
A rising star in the world of computing, Niemier is now tackling the complicated world of nanotechnology. He is best known for two groundbreaking papers on computer architectures and circuit design for emergent technologies, including one of only four papers in computer architecture research to be accepted for publication by the respected International Symposium of Computer Architecture, which included the paper in its first nanotechnology-related conference session.
Niemier's multidisciplinary research in nanotechnology allows computer science to shape physical science ( and vice versa. Niemier facilitates the design of nanoscale devices by encouraging collaborations between computer scientists and physical scientists. Working with quantum-dot cellular automata, Niemier studies how computer architecture is affected by emergent technologies, finding ways to accelerate their emergence while developing design methodologies and curricula for others. He is also testing whether DNA tiling is powerful enough to construct functional circuits for molecular electronics.
In 1999, Niemier received a National Science Foundation Fellowship and in 2003, received grant funding to study automatic placement algorithms for quantum-dot cellular automata, which are tiny machines composed of artificial atoms. By bringing the future into focus, Niemier bridges the gap between physical device development and architectural design, taking the world from circuits to systems.
