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Abstract: The rapid growth of memory-intensive computing applications such as machine learning, both in the cloud and in edge devices, combined with the slowing pace of traditional transistor scaling, have created unprecedented requirements on embedded and discrete memories in electronic systems. Spintronic devices – i.e., devices which combine data storage in a magnetically ordered material with electrical readout using spin-dependent transport phenomena – are prime contenders to address this need, because they combine nonvolatile operation with the high speed and endurance required for random-access memory and in-memory computing applications. 

Biography: Pedram Khalili is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, and Director of the Physical Electronics Research Laboratory (PERL). He is also affiliated with the Applied Physics graduate program at Northwestern University, where he currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies. Prior to joining Northwestern, he was an adjunct assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is focused on nanoelectronic and nanomagnetic devices for computing and communication systems, including magnetic memories, microwave detectors, antiferromagnetic spintronic devices, and unconventional computing architectures based on magnetic devices. Pedram has published more than 115 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, and is an inventor on 16 issued patents. He received the Northwestern University ECE department’s Best Teacher Award in 2020.

He received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, in 2008, both in electrical engineering. He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Photonics, the Early Career Editorial Board of Multifunctional Materials, and has served as a Guest Editor for Spin and Micromachines. He is Chair of the Chicago Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and represents the IEEE Magnetics Society on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Task Force for Rebooting Computing (TFRC). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.