Akhilesh Jaiswal (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India, in 2011, the M.S. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, in 2019. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Southern California. His current research interests include intelligence at the extreme edge using processing-in-pixel and processing-in-sensor technology, hardware-software co- design for efficient distributed computing, bio-inspired paradigms for sensing and computing including neuromorphic systems, and electro-optic general-purpose computing. Dr. Jaiswal’s awards include the ISI Exploratory Research Award, in 2020, the Keston Exploratory Research Award, in 2021, the IEEE Brain Community Best Paper Award, in 2022, and the Best Paper Nomination in the 2022 VLSI-SoC.