John Paul Strachan is the director of the Peter Grünberg Institute for Neuromorphic Computing hardware nodes (PGI-14) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and Professor at RWTH Aachen. Prior to this, he was a Distinguished Technologist and leader of the Emerging Accelerators team at Hewlett Packard Labs, HPE in silicon valley. He received undergraduate and PhD degrees from MIT and Stanford University, respectively. His teams research new approaches to computational acceleration leveraging emerging analog and non-volatile device technology. Application areas include machine learning, probabilistic computing, and optimization. He has more than 60 patents and has co-authored or authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. He has previously worked on nanomagnetic devices for memory for which he was awarded the Falicov Award from the American Vacuum Society, and has developed sensing systems for precision agriculture in a company which he co-founded. He serves in many professional societies including IEEE IEDM ExComm, the Nanotechnology Council ExComm, past program chair and steering member of the International Conference on Rebooting Computing and IRPS