Invited Speaker

Leopoldo Hernandez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Integrated Nano Computing Lab at The University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Professor Jean Anne Incorvia. His research focuses on the electrical control of magnetic dynamics in nanoscale spintronic devices for advanced computing applications. The electrical control mechanisms being investigated are using piezoelectric substrates for strain actuation, ion-migration via electrolyte gating to modify the exchange landscape, and voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy. Leo received a B.S. in Physics from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Denver in 2024. His doctoral work involved the characterization of spin and charge transport in ferrimagnetic and disordered magnetic thin films, resulting in the demonstration of a temperature-controlled memory element using synthetic bilayer ferrimagnetic CoGd. Leo’s current research is motivated by the demand for faster and denser compute operations. He is working on developing efficient electrical control of magnetic material nanotextures to be applied in probabilistic and in memory compute.