P Susthitha Menon is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the IMEN-UKM Coordinator for Alumni Engagement. She received her BEng (Hons) degree from UKM in 1999. As an Intel scholar, she worked at Intel Malaysia as a Product Engineer for mobile modules systems from 1999 to 2002. She then received her MSc and PhD (Distinction) degrees in 2005 and 2008 respectively from UKM, for the development of Si- and InGaAs-based interdigitated p-i-n photodiodes. At IMEN, she is specializing in the field of plasmonics, optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and robust engineering optimization. She has supervised a total of 30 MSc/PhD students to completion. The total Research Grant amount that she has obtained is USD$282000 with 18 projects as Main Principal Investigator (PI) from 2010 till 2022, obtained from IEEE EDS, International AISTDF grant from the Indian government, UKM, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) and Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). In terms of Co-PI, she has completed 32 research projects both from within UKM and from Malaysian ministries worth USD$450000 from 2009 till now. She is a member of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Board of Governors (BoG) and the Chair of the IEEE Women in EDS committee. Dr Menon is a Senior Member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE.