Dr. Balwinder Raj (MIEEE’2006) did his B.Tech., Electronics Engineering (PTU Jalandhar); M.Tech., Microelectronics (PU Chandigarh); and Ph.D., VLSI Design (IIT Roorkee), India in 2004, 2006, and 2010, respectively. For his postdoctoral research work, the European Commission awarded him "Erasmus Mundus" Mobility of life research fellowship based on his studies at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy in 2010–2011. Dr. Raj received the India4EU (India for European Commission) Fellowship and worked as a visiting researcher at KTH University, Stockholm, Sweden, October–November 2013. He also visited Aalto University, Finland, as a visiting researcher during June 2017. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at the Dr B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Techology Jalandhar, India; previously, he worked at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Chandigarh, India. Dr. Raj has also worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV-IIITM Gwalior (An autonomous institute established by Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India) from July 2011 to April 2012. He has received the Best Teacher Award from Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) New Delhi on 26 July 2013. Dr. Raj received the Young Scientist Award from Punjab Academy of Sciences during the 18th Punjab Science Congress held on 9 February 2015. He has also received a research paper award in the International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering held at Pattaya, Thailand, from 11 to 12 July 2015. Dr. Raj has authored/co-authored 5 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed international/national journals and conferences. His areas of interest in research are classical/non-classical nanoscale semiconductor device modeling; nanoelectronics and their applications in hardware security, sensors and circuit design, FinFET-based memory design, low-power VLSI design, digital/ analog VLSI design, and FPGA implementation.