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Eric Pop (epop at stanford dot edu) is the Pease-Ye Professor of Electrical Engineering (EE) and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics and Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford and SLAC, where he also co-leads the SystemX Alliance. Before Stanford, he spent several years on the faculty of UIUC, and in industry at Intel and IBM. His research interests include nanoelectronics, data storage, and energy. He received his PhD in EE from Stanford (2005) and three degrees from MIT (MEng and BS in EE, BS in Physics). His honors include the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the PECASE from the White House (the highest honor given by the US government to early-career scientists & engineers), Young Investigator Awards from the Navy, Air Force, NSF CAREER, DARPA, and several best-paper awards with his students. He is an APS and IEEE Fellow, a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, he was General Chair of the IEEE DRC and NVMTS, and has also served on program committees of IEDM, VLSI, MRS, and APS conferences. In his spare time he tries to avoid injuries while snowboarding and in a past life he was a DJ at KZSU 90.1 FM. [CV]