Paul William Coteus
Paul William Coteus was an electrical engineer at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Dr. Coteus was elevated to IBM Fellow in 2012 for his contributions to the system packaging of the BlueGene family of supercomputers. He was the Chief Engineer for the development of BlueGene systems, and a Master Inventor at IBM.
Dr. Coteus was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his "contributions to packaging for high performance computing systems."
Throughout his career at IBM, he contributed to over 200 patents and authored many papers in the field of electronic packaging. Google Scholar lists over 400 entries with his name.
Upon retiring from IBM Research, Dr. Coteus became involved in exploring techniques for capturing carbon dioxide towards mitigating climate change.
Dr. Coteus graduated from Bradley University with a degree in Physics. After receiving a Ph.D. in Physics at Columbia University, he became Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Coteus joined IBM Research in 1988.