Dr. Joerg Kliewer received the Dipl.-Ing. (MSEE) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, in 1993 and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kiel, Kiel,  Germany, in 1999, respectively.

From 1993 to 1998 he was a Research Assistant at the University of Kiel, Germany, and from 1999 to 2004, he was a Senior Researcher and Lecturer with the same institution. In 2004, he visited the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., for one year, and from 2005 until 2007, he was with the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, as a Visiting Assistant Professor. From August 2007 until December 2013 he was with  New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, as an as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor. In January 2014 he joined the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, where he is a Professor since August 2018. His research interests span coding and information theory, privacy and security, machine learning, graphical models, and statistical algorithms, which includes applications to wireless communication, data storage, and neuroscience.

Dr. Kliewer was the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Award and a German Research Foundation Fellowship Award in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and was named Fulbright Scholar by the U.S. Department of State in 2020. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2008 to 2014, and from 2015 to 2021 served as an Area Editor for the same journal. Also, he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2017 to 2020.