Ronald F. DeMara is a Pegasus-entitled University-level Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Central Florida, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1993. He has completed approximately 350 articles, 50 funded projects as PI or Co-PI, and 57 graduates as Ph.D. dissertation and/or M.S. thesis advisor on topics of computer architecture with emphasis on emerging devices for machine learning, adaptive and reconfigurable hardware, and the digitization of STEM education. He has served ten terms as a Topical Editor or Associate Editor of various IEEE Transactions and technical conferences including General Co-Chair of GLSVLSI-2023. He has been a Keynote Speaker at IEEE iSES, IEEE IEMtronics, IEEE RAW, and IEEE ReConFig conferences. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, and AAIA. He has received the Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE