Tommaso Balercia was born in Jesi, Italy in 1979. He received his master’s degree in Microelectronics from the Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy) and his PhD from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He's currently the principal architect of the NVIDIA digital twin for the simulation of radio access networks (RANs). His area of interest covers EM simulation, RAN design, and HPC at scale.