Dr. Baker Mohammad earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, as well as an M.S. in ECE from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, and a B.S. degree in ECE from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He currently serves as a professor and Chair of Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) at Khalifa University, where he also directs the System on Chip laboratory. Prior to joining Khalifa University, Dr. Mohammad held the position of Senior Staff Engineer/Manager at Qualcomm in Austin, Texas, for six years, during which he contributed to the design of high-performance and low-power DSP processors employed in communication and multimedia applications. Before his tenure at Qualcomm, he spent a decade at Intel Corporation working on the design of a diverse range of microprocessors, spanning high-performance server chips exceeding 100 watts (IA-64) to low-power mobile embedded processors consuming less than one watt (Xscale). He possesses over 16 years of industrial experience in microprocessor design with a specialization in memory architecture, low-power circuits, and physical design. Dr. Mohammad’s research interests encompass VLSI design, energy-efficient computing, embedded memory and in- memory computing, neuromorphic computing, emerging technologies such as Memristor and STTRAM, as well as hardware accelerators for Cyber-Physical Systems and Artificial Intelligence. His academic contributions include authorship and co-authorship of over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, more than five books, 20+ U.S. patents, as well as numerous invited seminars, panel discussions, and tutorials. Notably, he delivered a tutorial on Energy Harvesting and Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) at the 2015 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Dr. Mohammad also serves on the advisory board for the Secure Systems Research Center, a division of the Technology Innovation Institute. Additionally, he served as an associate editor for esteemed journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, IEEE Access, and Scientific Reports. He actively participates in technical committees for IEEE conferences and reviews scholarly work for TVLSI and IEEE Circuits and Systems journals. Among his accolades are the KUSTAR Staff Excellence Award for Intellectual Property Creation, the Best Paper Award from IEEE TVLSI, the 2016 IEEE MWSCAS Myrill B. Reed Best Paper Award, and the Qualcomm QStar Award for Excellence in Performance and Leadership. Furthermore, he has received recognition for outstanding session papers from SRC Techcon in both 2016 and 2017.