Gregory Snider, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Robert W. and Alice M. Bauchman Professor in Engineering, effective July 1, 2024.

“Appointment to an endowed chair is a prestigious honor that recognizes exceptional contributions to research, teaching, and service in one’s field,” said Patricia J. Culligan, the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering.

“Professor Snider is internationally recognized for his influential contributions to nanotechnology,” Culligan said. “As department chair, he has demonstrated remarkable leadership, advancing research excellence and promoting diversity and inclusion.”

Snider’s research interests include the design, fabrication, and measurements of micro- and nanoelectronic devices. Specifically, his lab develops single-electron devices that are ultra-low power and scalable to molecular sizes. Other projects include studies of the fundamental limits of energy use in computation and reversible-adiabatic computing for reduced power.

Snider has served as department chair since 2019 while leading his own, lab-based research program and teaching innovative courses on integrated chip fabrication. His creative initiatives and exemplary engagement with students as director of graduate studies (2006-16) earned him the Director of Graduate Studies Award.

For five years, he directed Notre Dame’s Nanofabrication Facility, a state-of-the-art teaching and research cleanroom with equipment for designing and manufacturing integrated circuits and devices.

Snider is a fellow of the IEEE and served as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices from 2014-2023.

After completing his undergraduate degree at California State Polytechnic University, Snider received a master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1994.