Xiaobo Sharon Hu is a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Her research interests include low-power system design, circuit and architecture design with emerging technologies, real-time embedded systems, and hardware-software co-design. She has published more than 450 papers in these areas. Some of her recognitions include the Best Paper Award from the Design Automation Conference, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design; Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award; and NSF Career award. She served as the General Chair and/or TPC Chair of Design Automation Conference, Real-Time Systems Symposium, Embedded Systems Week, etc. She was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems and served as Associate Editor of other ACM and IEEE journals. Sharon Hu is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.