Dr. Xu Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his BS in physics from University of Science and Technology of China and his PhD in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an Enrico Fermi Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory from 2018 to 2019. His research interests include nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, and emerging materials for energy harvesting, sensing, and communication applications.

Dr. Jesús Grajal received his PhD in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1998. Since 2017, he has been a Full Professor with the Signals, Systems, and Radiocommunications Department at UPM. His current research interests include semiconductor device modeling and high-frequency circuit and system design.

Dr. Marisa López-Vallejo received a PhD in electronic engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1999. She was with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA as a Member of the Technical Staff. Since 2016, she has been a Full Professor with the Electronic Engineering Department at UPM. Her major interests are in the area of low power, PVT-aware design, computer-aided diagnostic methods and tools, emerging memories, and application-specific high-performance programmable architectures.

Elaine McVay is pursuing a PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her research interests include 2D material/thin-film photovoltaics and infrared detectors.

Dr. Tomás Palacios is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received his PhD from the University of California - Santa Barbara in 2006 and his undergraduate degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His current research focuses on demonstrating new electronic devices and applications for novel semiconductor materials such as graphene and gallium nitride. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the IEEE George Smith Award, and the NSF, ONR, and DARPA Young Faculty Awards, among many others.