Uygar E. Avci received the B.S. degree in physics and electrical engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2005. He is currently leading Advanced Device Research at Intel’s Components Research. He has coauthored more than 40 journal papers and conference proceedings and has filed 100 patents. Currently, his group is responsible for delivering new transistor and memory device technologies with an eye toward bridging device-physics-based understanding, testing, and experimental realities to improve circuit power, performance, and scaling of semiconductor technology. Dr. Avci was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He is also the Committee Chair for IEDM Emerging Device and Compute Technology.