Charles Augustine received the Bachelors in Electronics from BITS, Pilani, India in 2004 and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2011. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Circuit Research Lab (CRL) at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR. His primary research interests include low-power memory and logic using spin-torque devices, low-voltage CMOS circuits and reliability issues associated with them. He received Best Paper in Session Award at SRC Techcon in 2009, “AMD Design Excellence Award”from Purdue in 2008, nominated for Best Paper Award”at International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design in 2009 and won Bronze medal”for academic excellence from BITS, Pilani in 2004. He has held positions at Texas Instruments, ST Microelectronics, Philips Semiconductors, and Freescale Semiconductor, where he worked on CMOS digital integrated circuits and memories, including spin-torque based memories. Charles has published more than 25 papers in refereed journals and conferences.