Golla Eranna obtained his master's degree from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, with a top rank in the field of semiconductor physics. After that, he joined and received his Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. Later, he moved to the IIT Kharagpur Microelectronics Centre. Dr. Eranna joined CEERI, Pilani, India, as a scientist and is currently a senior principal scientist. He became a professor under the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (CSIR, New Delhi), and regularly lectures on VLSI processing technology. He also maintains a full-fledged semiconductor device fabrication laboratory.