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Innovations across AI and Semiconductors

που θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 11 Νοεμβρίου 2026, στις 12:15 στην αίθουσα Α31 (παλαιό κτήριο ΣΘΕ).

Ομιλητής: Θέμης Προδρομάκης, Regius Chair of Engineering, Centre for Electronics Frontiers, Institute for Micro Nano Systems

Abstract: The 21st century is defined by increasingly intelligent machines and a drive to use them for augmenting human capability. On one side, developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are more and more inspired by nature’s efficiency and capitalize on innovations in semiconductor technologies. On the other hand, advances in electronics are increasingly assisted through the use of AI tools and capabilities that accelerate the design, manufacturing, modelling and testing cycles of next generation electronics and semiconductor technologies. In this talk Professor Prodromakis will present a few examples across the AI and Semiconductor remits, including memristor-based AI hardware and the latest work of the APRIL AI Hub. 

Biography: 

Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh where he established the Centre for Electronics Frontiers (CEF) and is currently the Head of the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems (IMNS). His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications and leads an interdisciplinary team comprising 60 researchers with expertise across materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds an RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies and is Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics. He served as the 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 that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 26 countries and in 2025 he founded EVA that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering and with the Royal Academy of Engineering Princess Royal Silver Medal in 2025.