Umit Y. Ogras received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2007. From 2008 to 2013, he worked as a research scientist at the Strategic CAD Laboratories, Intel Corporation. Then, he joined the faculty of School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (2013-2020). Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Among the awards and honors that Ogras has received are the 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2017 NSF CAREER Award, 2017 CODES+ISSS Best Paper Award, Strategic CAD Labs Research Award, 2012 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Transactions on CAD Best Paper Award, 2011 IEEE VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award and 2008 EDAA Outstanding PhD. Dissertation Award. His research interests include digital system design, embedded systems, flexible hybrid electronics, assistive technologies and multicore architectures.