Ivan Sanchez Esqueda is an assistant professor at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. He received his doctorate from Arizona State University in 2011 for his work on ionizing radiation effects in advanced CMOS technologies. After obtaining his doctoral degree, he spent eight years as a senior electrical engineer and research lead at the University of Southern California, where he led programs on carbon-based nanoelectronics, reliability physics of nanoscale transistors and emerging nanotechnologies for novel computing architectures.