Matthew Marinella

Matthew Marinella is Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at ASU, where he leads a research group dedicated to advancing electronic and ionic memory technologies for energy efficient and resilient AI computing. He is PI of a major Microelectronics Commons effort to create the robust, analog, radiation-hardened resistive memory technology required by spaceborne in-sensor AI computing. 

From 2010 to 2021, he was with Sandia’s Microsystems S&T Center, where he was most recently Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. At Sandia, Dr. Marinella led numerous substantial projects that created new CMOS+X technologies and architectures for energy-efficient and extreme-environment computing. As the Learning Hardware Task Lead for the Hardware Acceleration of Adaptive Neural Algorithms (HAANA) Project, Dr. Marinella led a team that pioneered the use of emerging electrochemical and oxide-based ionic memory devices for neural network training and created multiscale modeling frameworks to understand and improve the accuracy of analog in-memory computing accelerators. He also served as Lead Scientist for Sandia’s Beyond Moore Computing Lab and DOE-level initiatives, contributing to U.S. microelectronics policy and growing Sandia’s footprint in emerging technologies. 

Prof. Marinella has published extensively in the area of emerging memory devices for energy efficient, analog in-memory, neuromorphic, and radiation-hardened computing (over 8,000 citations, h-index=41), given numerous invited and contributed talks, and presented several short courses on these topics. He has served in technical advising and leadership roles in various Lab- and DOE-level initiatives on next generation computing for government applications and is a member of the SRC Decadal Plan Executive Committee, a member of the Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap, and chairs the Emerging Memory Devices Section for the IRDS Roadmap Beyond CMOS Chapter. Dr. Marinella is a member of the Board of Review Editors for Science, serves on the technical program committees of several conferences, and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. 

Prior to starting at Sandia in 2010, he was a Device Engineer in Microchip’s Technology Development Group. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University under Dieter K. Schroder in 2008.