Seokbum Ko is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Rhode Island, USA in 2002 .His areas of research interest include computer architecture/arithmetic, efficient hardware implementation of compute-intensive applications, deep learning processor architecture and biomedical engineering. He is an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025), a senior member of IEEE circuits and systems society and an associate editor for IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE Access and IET Computers & Digital Techniques. He is an active member of IEEE CAS Technical Committee, IEEE P3109, IEEE754-2029, IEEE Domain-Specific Accelerators Standards Committee and IEEE Emerging Processor Systems Standards Committee. He was an associate editor for IEEE TCASI (2019-2021).