Kerem Çamsarı

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2015  - Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
• 2007  - BS   in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University 

Previous Positions

• 2015-2020 - Postdoctoral Associate, Purdue University
• 2020-2024 - Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2024-2026 - Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Kerem received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2015, where he continued as a postdoctoral researcher before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2020. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024 and Professor in 2026 and is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He leads the OPUS Lab (Orchestrating Physics for Unconventional Systems). He is also the co-founder of Flucta, a startup commercializing probabilistic computing hardware for AI inference.

His Ph.D. work, rooted in the theory of quantum transport, established a modular approach to connecting emerging materials and physical phenomena to circuits and systems. His subsequent work helped establish the concept of probabilistic bits (p-bits) and p-circuits as a framework for probabilistic computing. His research spans stochastic devices, circuits, architectures, and algorithms, with applications in combinatorial optimization, probabilistic inference, and AI.

His work has appeared in journals and conferences including Nature, Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Physical Review X. He has delivered over 80 invited talks at international conferences and workshops, including the APS March Meeting, IEEE Device Research Conference, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, and International Conference on VLSI Design.

He has served on the technical program committees of DATE, ICRC, and IEDM and as an Area Chair for ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS. He is a founding member of the Technical Committee on Quantum, Neuromorphic, and Unconventional Computing within the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, where he leads the unconventional computing section.

His honors include the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award, Bell Labs Prize, Misha Mahowald Prize, ONR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, and Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award. He was an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2024 and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.