Adrian M. Ionescu is a Full Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He received the BS &MS in Electronics and Telecommunications in 1989 from University ‘Politehnica’ Bucharest, Romania. He holds two PhDs: in Microelectronics, from University ‘Politehnica’ Bucharest (1994) and in Physics of semiconductor devices from National Polytechnic Institute Grenoble (1997). He is director of Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory of EPFL. His group pioneered steep slope devices and MEMS devices with emphasis on low power nanoelectronics. Prof. Ionescu published more than 600 articles. He is recipient of IBM Faculty Award 2013 and of André Blondel Medal 2009, France. In 2015 he was elected member of Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences. He is an IEEE Fellow and member of Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences.