Sandeep Krishna Thirumala completed his PhD from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, USA in 2020. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India in 2016 and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2018. He worked as an intern in the Technology Development division of Micron Technologies, USA in 2020. His primary research interest includes exploring emerging device technologies for next-generation computing workloads. His PhD thesis was titled "Enabling Logic-Memory Synergy using integrated non-volatile transistor technologies for energy-efficient computing" where he explored emerging technologies for logic and storage such as ferroelectrics, spintronics and complex-oxide electronics, processing-in-memory solutions for machine learning systems, and artificial intelligence hardware for edge and Internet-of-Things (IoT) computing. He has received several awards and accolades for his research including the best paper award in NANOARCH-2019 in Qingdao, China. He was also nominated for best paper award in DATE-2020 in Grenoble, France and ISLPED-2018 in Washington, USA. He was the recipient of the prestigious Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by Purdue University in 2020 and the Merit scholarship for academic excellence, awarded by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India from 2012-2016. He is currently an Engineer at Micron Technologies, developing next-generation memory and storage systems.