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Professor Cheema’s research focuses on addressing grand challenges in energy consumption, storage, and generation in microelectronics. He explores atomic-scale engineering of electronic materials, particularly ferroelectric heterostructures, to discover new energy-efficient and energy-autonomous technologies for sustainable microelectronics. His work on ferroelectric materials, which exhibit unique properties such as the negative capacitance effect, enhances charge responses beyond traditional limits, resulting in unprecedented performance ranging from ultralow power logic transistors to ultrahigh energy storage capacitors. Professor Cheema’s future research aims to create self-powered intelligent microsystems that integrate computing, memory, and sensing capabilities alongside on-chip energy storage and harvesting, all based on ferroelectric building blocks. He earned his bachelor’s degree in applied physics and applied mathematics from Columbia University, where he was awarded the Francis Rhodes Prize. He completed his PhD in materials science and engineering and a postdoc in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory involved integrating patented negative permittivity ferroelectric material into U.S. defense foundry transistor technology.