Themis Prodromakis

Regius Chair of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh

Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and is Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers. His work focuses on developing energy-efficient AI hardware solutions through innovating novel semiconductor technologies and neuromorphic computing architectures. He leads an interdisciplinary team comprising 50 researchers with expertise across materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for applications in embedded systems and AI. He holds an RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies and is Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics. He is the Director of the UKRI APRIL AI Hub that is developing AI tools and capabilities for the electronics sector. In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 26 countries. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

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