M. Hassan Najafi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran, the M.Sc. degree in computer architecture from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA, in 2011, 2014, and 2018, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA. He has authored/co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed papers and has been granted five U.S. patents with more pending. His research interests include stochastic and approximate computing, unary processing, in-memory computing, and hyperdimensional computing. In recognition of his research, he was the recipient of the 2018 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota, and Best Paper Award at the ICCD'17 and GLSVLSI'23. Dr. Najafi has been an Editor of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems.