Current Distinguished Lecturers

Country USA Michael Niemier Affiliation University of Notre Dame IEEE Region Region 04 (Central U.S.)	2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer • Benchmarking memory technologies at the device, array, and application-levels • Supporting AI models that quantify uncertainty with emerging logic and memory technologies. • Mapping emerging logic and memory solutions to large language models
Country CYP Theo Theocharides Affiliation University of Cyprus IEEE Region Region 08 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Email Email	2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer • Let Edge Devices Think and Decide! • Dynamic Early-Exit Convolutional Neural Networks for Edge Vision: Do only what and when you need!
Country NLD Aida Todri-Sanial Affiliation Eindhoven University of Technology IEEE Region Region 08 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Email Email	2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer • Neuromorphic Oscillatory Neural Networks for Edge AI Computing • Analog Computation with Oscillatory Neural Networks • Unconventional Computing from Qubits to Coupled Oscillators
Country USA Jinjun Xiong Affiliation University at Buffalo IEEE Region Region 01 (Northeastern U.S.)	2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer • HiKonv: High Throughput Quantized Convolution on Conventional Multipliers with Novel Bit-wise Management and Computation • A Reflection on Machine Learning for EDA: what are possible future directions? • Make Every Bit of Bandwidth Count: AI Systems Innovation for Accelerating AI in the Era of Cloud Computing