Dr An Chen is currently Executive Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), an IBM Corporation program. The NRI supports university-based research on future nanoscale logic devices to replace the CMOS transistor in the 2020 timeframe. A Yale graduate with a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Dr Chen joined NRI in 2007, working on beyond-CMOS devices and STARnet programs at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Since 2011, he has been chair of the Emerging Research Device group of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Dr Chen served on the Technical Advisory Board of several SRC programs and is a lead editor of “Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices”.