Dr Rajkumar Sarma received his PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, in 2020. He is currently working as a Lecturer in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Galway, Ireland. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Fellow at Lero, the Research Ireland Research Centre for Software, within the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick. Dr Sarma has over 13 years of teaching and research experience, having held academic and research positions in India and Ireland. His research interests include analogue and digital VLSI design, low-power architectures, FPGA-based prototyping, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata, and machine learning-assisted hardware design. He has contributed to the Automatic Design of Digital Circuits (ADDC) project, which led to the world’s first machine learning-generated ASIC prototype, and has also been involved in the AutoCircuit project, which focuses on developing a machine learning-based system for autonomous digital circuit generation from user-specified design requirements. He was recognised with the Lero Director’s Prize for his postdoctoral research contributions. Dr Sarma has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications, published four technical books, and holds multiple patents, including a granted patent on a signed floating-point MAC architecture. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an active member of ACM.