Dr. Themis Prodromakis

Biography

Themis Prodromakis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, where he serves as the Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers. His work primarily focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications. He leads an interdisciplinary team of 30 researchers, specializing in materials process development, electron devices, circuits, systems, and embedded applications. Themis holds a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and has affiliations as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, and as a visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London and a Fellow of several professional societies including the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Physics, and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd, which delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating the characterization of novel nanodevices across 21 countries. In 2019, he founded sonet.ai to build new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions to memristive technologies and their applications have significantly advanced emerging technologies in the electronics industry, recognized by the 2021 Blavatnik Award as a UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

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