Merlyne De Souza Prof. of Microelectronics at The University of Sheffield Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE – Electron Devices Society Maria Merlyne De Souza received her B.Sc (Physics, Maths) from University of Mumbai, B.E. (Electronics and Communications Engineering), IISc Bangalore and PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She became Professor of Electronics and Materials at the Emerging Technologies Research Centre, De Montfort University in 2003 and Professor of Microelectronics at the University of Sheffield in 2007. She has been a technical and executive committee member of IEDM 2012-2017 and IEEE-IRPS 2003-2013. She has co-authored 117 journal papers and 190 conferences in multidisciplinary research topics to date. She is currently VP of Technical Activities (New Initiatives) of the IEEE-EDS society. She is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE – Electron Devices Society.…