P Susthitha Menon is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), The National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia-UKM) since 2009. She completed her B.Eng (Hons) degree at UKM specializing in Electric, Electronics and System Engineering in 1998 under the sponsorship of Intel Products Malaysia Pte. Ltd. She was a Product Engineer (mobile modules and motherboard systems) with Intel Malaysia until 2002 during which she had a 6-month stint as a product transfer engineer at Intel’s System Manufacturing and Technology Division (SMTD), Oregon, USA in 1999. In 2005, she completed her M.Sc. degree specializing in Microelectronics at UKM and in 2008, she completed her Ph.D. degree (Optoelectronics) with Distinction at IMEN-UKM. Her expertise is in the field of plasmonic biosensing, optoelectronics and nanophotonics. She is the principal investigator for 6 national projects under the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education and has published more than 200 indexed international journals and proceedings. In 2012 and 2018, she received the Excellent Service Award from UKM. Dr Menon is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Past Chair of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Malaysia Chapter which won the prestigious 2014 & 2018 IEEE EDS Region 10 Chapter of the Year Award and the 2017 & 2018 IEEE Malaysia Section Best Chapter Award. She is currently a member of IEEE EDS’s Board of Governors, Chair of IEEE Women in Electron Devices (WiED) and is the winner of the 2022 Outstanding Women in Engineering Volunteer in IEEE Malaysia Section.