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 between 2015 and 2020 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. 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 connect a growing set of emerging materials and phenomena to circuits and systems. In later work, he helped establish the concept of p-bits and p-circuits as a bridge between classical and quantum circuits to design efficient, domain-specific hardware accelerators for the beyond Moore era of electronics.

His work has been published in many refereed 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 American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, IEEE Device Research Conference (DRC), Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) and the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID), among others.

He served on the technical program committee for Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025; the IEEE Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) in 2020 and 2021; the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in 2022 and 2023. He serves as Area Chair for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 2026.

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. He has received the IEEE Magnetics Society Early Career Award, a Bell Labs Prize, the Misha Mahowald Prize, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER award for his work on probabilistic computing, as well as the Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award (2025). He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Magnetics Society in 2024. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.