Zhenlin Pei is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama. He holds the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University and The University of Texas at Arlington. During his Ph.D., he collaborated with IMEC to develop CACTI++, which bridges gaps in rapid EDA-based co-design and co-optimization from the transistor to the system level. He was a Senior Design Engineer in the IP Group R&D for tapeout at Cadence for four years. His research interests include CAD/EDA, DTCO & STCO, computing methodologies and systems spanning emerging technologies, circuits, VLSI, and SI, including edge intelligence and neuromorphic computing.