Rakesh Kumar is a Professor and John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with research and teaching interests in computer architecture and system-level design automation. He often writes about issues at the intersection of technology, policy, and society, and has commented on semiconductor issues for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, and Fortune, among others. His work on plastic chips was chosen among the three "biggest semiconductor headlines of 2022" by IEEE Spectrum. Rakesh has a BS from IIT Kharagpur and a PhD from University of California at San Diego.