Professor Chris H. Kim is currently the Mcknight Presidential Endowed Chair and the Distinguished Mcknight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is the recipient of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Sustainable Future Award (2024), Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (2023), Taylor Award for Distinguished Research (2018), SRC Technical Excellence Award for his “Silicon Odometer” research (2016), NSF CAREER Award, Mcknight Foundation Land-Grant Professorship, and IBM Faculty Partnership Awards. His group has expertise in digital, mixed-signal, and memory IC design, with emphasis on semiconductor reliability, hardware security, memory circuits, radiation effects, time-based circuits, beyond-CMOS technologies, machine learning hardware, and quantum-inspired computing. In 2024, he co-founded COBI, Inc., a company focused on commercializing quantum-inspired computers. He is an IEEE fellow.