Dr. Joseph S. Friedman is an associate professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and director of the NeuroSpinCompute Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Northwestern University and undergraduate degrees from Dartmouth College. He was previously a CNRS Research Associate with Université Paris-Saclay, a Summer Faculty Fellow at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino, a Guest Scientist at RWTH Aachen University, and worked on logic design automation at Intel Corporation.Dr. Friedman is a member of the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, and previously the Microelectronics Journal. He is a conference chair of SPIE Spintronics, has served on numerous conference technical program committees, and is the founder and chairperson of the Texas Symposium on Computing with Emerging Technologies (ComET). He has also been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.