Ms. Rahnuma Rahman is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Virginia, USA, with a research focus on straintronic and nanomagnet-based device and circuit simulation. She received her BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and her M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from VCU.

Prof. Dr. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay is Commonwealth Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received a B. Tech degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois; and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He spent one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (1986–1987) and then nine years on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. In 1996, he joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. Then, in 2001, he moved to Virginia Commonwealth University as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a courtesy appointment as a Professor of Physics. Prof. Bandyopadhyay is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2018, he received the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award. In 2020, Dr. Bandyopadhyay was named the sixteenth winner of the IEEE Pioneer in Nanotechnology Award. In 2021, he was given the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.