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Editors
Santosh K. Kurinec is a professor of electrical and microelectronic
engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester,
New York. She received a PhD in physics from University of Delhi,
India and worked as a scientist at the National Physical Laboratory,
New Delhi, India. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate
in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida where she researched thin
metal film composites. Prior to joining RIT, she was assistant profes-
sor of electrical engineering at Florida State University/Florida
A&M University College of Engineering in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a Fellow of Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member APS, NY State Academy of Sciences,
and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer. She received the 2012 IEEE Technical Field
Award. In 2016, she received the Medal of Honor from the International Association of
Advanced Materials (IAAM). She was inducted into the International Women in
Technology (WiTi) Hall of Fame in 2018. She has worked on a range of materials covering
magnetic, ferroelectrics, semiconductors, photonic luminescent thin films, and metal com-
posites for device applications. Her current research activities include nonvolatile memory,
advanced integrated circuit materials and processes, and photovoltaics. She has over 100
publications in research journals and conference proceedings. She can be reached at
[email protected].
Sumeet Walia is a senior lecturer and a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow
at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is an expert in mate-
rials engineering for nanoelectronics, sensing, and wearable
devices. He has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Innovators
under 35 in Asia-Pacific by the MIT Technology Review in 2017,
was awarded the Victorian Young Achiever Award for Research
Impact in 2017, and named among the most innovative Engineers
in Australia in 2018 by Engineers Australia. He can be reached at
[email protected] or
[email protected].