Profile

Dr Andrea Fasoli obtained his PhD at the Electrical Engineering department of the Cambridge University (UK), working on synthesis and characterization of semiconducting nanowires, and their assembly into nanoelectronic devices. He continued his work as a Research Fellow at the Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He moved to the Bay Area in 2012 and joined Hitachi GST (later merged by Western Digital) to develop novel materials and architectures for Hard Disk Drives media. In 2016, he joined the IBM Almaden Research Center where he is currently a Research Staff Member. Andrea's interests and activities at IBM span from sensors for IoT to digital and analog accelerators for machine learning tasks.