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Student Mentor Lunch
The Student Mentor Lunch lets students pick the minds of professionals from academia, government and industry. It’s a chance to hear from the experts why they chose their field, what it takes to get there, and what it’s really like once they arrived. The Mentor Lunch also features a speaker who provides an expert “how to” discussion on new topic each year.
2025 Mentor Lunch
Professor Gina Adam’s lab develops novel hardware foundations at the intersection of materials, devices, and circuits to enable new ways of computing. Her research interests are focused on emerging nanoelectronic and nanoelectromechanical devices and their integration in beyond von Neumann systems such as computation-in-memory and neuromorphic platforms. Her group innovates at the design, simulation and nanofabrication level with a vision of system-level experimental demonstrations. Recent work has been investigating two-terminal non-volatile memory devices called memristors that have an electrical behavior similar to that of an artificial synapse and can be used for both data storage and processing.
Previous Year Mentor Lunches

2024 Speaker
Prof. Stella W. Pang

2023 Speaker
Prof. R. Fabian Pease

2022 Speaker
Leonidas E. Ocola

2021 Speaker
Henry I. Smith
Watch the 2021 Talk from Henry I. Smith below:

