Center for Circuit System Solutions

Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc. (with Honors) degree from Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1981 to 1984 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Since 1985, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in 1989. His research interests are in CMOS RF design, data high-speed analog integrated circuit design, conversion, and other techniques of analog signal processing. Dr. Abidi was the Program Secretary for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to 1990, and General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was Secretary of the IEEE Solid-state Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995, he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits. Prof. Abidi has won numerous awards that most recently include 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2002 ISSCC Top Ten Author, 2007 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award for his pioneering contributions in the development of RF-CMOS technology, and 2007 National Academy of Engineering.

Ehsan Afshari received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2003, and 2006, respectively. In August 2006, he joined the faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He has worked on the application of the mathematical theory of wave propagation to circuit design techniques for very high-frequency and/or high power applications. He is the founder of the Cornell Highly Integrated Physical Systems (CHIPS) that focuses on high speed, complex circuits and systems. Prof. Afshari was awarded DARPA's Young Faculty Award in 2008 and Iran's Best Engineering Student award by the President of Iran in 2001. He is also the recipient of the best paper award in the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2003, the first place at Stanford-Berkeley-Caltech Inventor's Challenge, March 2005, the recipient of the Silver Medal in the Physics Olympiad in 1997.

Elad Alon received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2001, 2002, and 2007, respectively. He then joined the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where he is now a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He has also held visiting or consulting positions at Sun, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM Research. Prof. Alon and his research group have worked on energy-efficient integrated circuits for a variety of applications using bulk and SOI processes from 130nm down to 32nm. Through previously funded C2S2 research, Prof. Alon developed on-chip supply noise monitoring circuitry that was included in several industrial microprocessors, including Intel's 90nm Itanium.

Jay Brockman received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. Dr. Brockman joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame that same year and is currently Associate Dean of Engineering for Educational Programs. From 1982 through 1986, he worked for Intel Corporation, focusing on testing and yield enhancement of non-volatile memory products, including a yearlong assignment at Intel's test facility in Manila, Philippine. From 2003 through 2006 Dr. Brockman was a visiting faculty associate at the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech, as part of the DARPA HPCS program. He led the team that developed PIM Lite, the first multithreaded processor-in-memory chip. His current research interests include computer architecture with a focus on memory systems, hardware acceleration of parallel algorithms, and engineering education, especially the interface between high school and college. He is the author of the textbook, "Introduction to Engineering: Modeling and Problem Solving."

L. Richard Carley received his B.S. degree from MIT in 1976 and M.S and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1978 and 1984, respectively. He subsequently joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he is currently the ST Microelectronics Professor of Engineering. He has worked on custom integrated circuit design and MEMS design technology for over 20 years. In 1998, he co-founded and acted as Chief Analog Designers for Neolinear (acquired by Cadence in 2004). In 2001, on a leave of absence from CMU, he co-founded IC Mechanics, a MEMS sensor company that pioneered the development of thin-film post-CMOS MEMS sensors. Prof. Carley has published nearly 200 papers in technical journals and conferences and over 20 patents. He has been the Principle Investigator or Co-Principle Investigator on grants and contracts totaling over $25M. Prof. Carley has won many awards including best paper awards at two different Design Automation Conferences and an Invited Keynote at the NASA Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Conference. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan received the Ph.D. degree from U.C. Berkeley in 1994. Since September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he is currently the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was a co-recipient of several awards including the 1993 IEEE Communications Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award, the IEEE Electron Devices Society's 1997 Paul Rappaport Award for the Best Paper in an EDS publication during 1997, the 1999 DAC Design Contest Award, the 2004 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest Award, the 2007 ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence and the 2007 ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper. His research interests include low-power digital integrated circuit design, wireless microsensors, ultra-wideband radios, and emerging technologies. He is a co-author of /Low Power Digital CMOS Design/ (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), /Digital Integrated Circuits/ (Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2003, 2nd edition), and /Sub-threshold Design for Ultra-Low Power Systems/ (Springer 2006). He is also a co-editor of /Low Power CMOS Design/ (IEEE Press, 1998), /Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits/ (IEEE Press, 2000), and /Leakage in Nanometer CMOS Technologies/ (Springer, 2005). He has served as a technical program co-chair for the 1997 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), VLSI Design '98, and the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems. He was the Signal Processing Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 1999-2001, the Program Vice-Chair for ISSCC 2002, the Program Chair for ISSCC 2003, and the Technology Directions Sub-committee Chair for ISSCC 2004-2009. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1998 to 2001. He served on SSCS AdCom from 2000 to 2007 and he was the meetings committee chair from 2004 to 2007. He is the Conference Chair for ISSCC 2010. He is the Director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories.

Joel L. Dawson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He received the S.B. in EE from MIT in 1996, and the MEng. degree from MIT in EECS in 1997. He went on to pursue further graduate studies at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering for his work on power amplifier linearization techniques. Before joining the faculty at MIT, Dr. Dawson spent one year at a startup company that he co-founded. He continues to be active in the industry as both a technical and legal consultant. Prof. Dawson received the NSF CAREER award in 2008. Members of the Dawson group at MIT pursue solutions to a wide variety of problems in analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit design. Our current focus is on RF transceiver architectures for deep-submicron CMOS. In addition, we work on biomedical device development in collaboration with clinicians at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.

Gary K. Fedder is the Howard M. Wilkoff Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of The Robotics Institute and the Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECS from MIT in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. He worked at Hewlett-Packard as an R&D engineer from 1984 to 1989. His primary research interests include design and modeling of microsensors and microactuators, fabrication of integrated MEMS with electronic circuits using conventional CMOS processing, structured design methodologies for MEMS and implantable microsystems. He currently serves as a subject editor for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, is on the editorial boards of the IoP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering and IET Micro & Nano Letters, and is co-editor of the Wiley-VCH Advanced Micro- and Nanosystems book series. In 2005, he served as general co-chair of the IEEE MEMS Conference and is general chair of the IEEE Sensors Conference in 2010. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the AIME Electronic Materials Society Ross Tucker Award in 1994, an NSF Career Award in 1996, and the George Tallman Ladd Research Award at Carnegie Mellon in 1996. Professor Fedder has contributed to over 160 research publications and holds several patents in the MEMS area.

Michael P. Flynn received the B. E. and M. Eng. Sc degrees from the National University of Ireland at Cork, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. From 1998 to 1991, he was with the National Microelectronics Research Centre, Cork. He was with National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA, from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was a Member of Technical Staff with Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. From 1997 to 2001, he was with Parthus Technologies, Cork, and was also a part-time faculty member at the Department of Microelectronics, National University of Ireland (UCC), Cork. Dr. Flynn joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2001. He received the NSF Early Career Award, an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan and is a Guggenheim Fellow. He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II from 2002 to 2004. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits and serves on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid State Circuits Conference.

Franz Franchetti is an Assistant Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Franchetti's research focuses on automatic performance tuning and program generation for emerging parallel platforms, including multicore CPUs, clusters and high-performance systems (HPC), graphics processors (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and FPGA-acceleration for CPUs. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He was a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing during 2003. In 2004-2005 he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a recipient of the Schrödinger fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Fund. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award).

Ramesh Harjani is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and a Graduate Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He received his BS degree from BITS Pilani, his MS degree from IIT Delhi, and his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, 1984, and 1989 respectively. He co-founded Bermai, Inc, a startup company developing CMOS chips for wireless multi-media applications in 2001. He received Best Paper Awards at the 1987 DAC, the 1989 ICCAD, the 1998 GOMAC and the 2007 TECHCON. His research group won 1st prize for the SRC Design Challenges in 2000 and 2003. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II in 1995, Guest Editors for the International Journal of High-Speed Electronics and Systems and for Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing in 2004 and is a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits for 2009-2011. He was the Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society technical committee on Analog Signal Processing from 1999 to 2000. He has held visiting faculty positions at Lucent Bell Labs, Allentown, PA (1997) and the Army Research Labs, Adelphi, MD (2009). His research interests include analog/RF circuits for wired and wireless communication systems.

James C. Hoe is Professor and Associate Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in EECS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and S.M. in 1994. He received his B.S. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He is interested in many aspects of computer architecture and digital hardware design, including the specific areas of fault-tolerant processors and systems; high-level hardware description and synthesis; and computer simulation and prototyping technologies. He co-directs the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM) and is affiliated with the Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) and the Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He heads the SUN OpenSPARC Center of Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University. For more information, please visit http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe.

Mark Horowitz is the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and the Yahoo! Founders Professor of the School of Engineering at Stanford University. In addition he is Chief Scientist at Rambus Inc. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Dr. Horowitz has received many awards including a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1993 ISSCC Best Paper Award, the ISCA 2004 Most Influential Paper of 1989, and the 2006 Don Pederson IEEE Technical Field Award. He is a fellow of IEEE and ACM and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Science. Dr. Horowitz's research interests are quite broad and span using EE and CS analysis methods to problems in molecular biology to creating new design methodologies for analog and digital VLSI circuits. He has worked on many processor designs, from early RISC chips to creating some of the first distributed shared memory multiprocessors, and is currently working on on-chip multiprocessor designs.

Dr. Kogge received his Ph.D in EE from Stanford in 1973. From 1968 until 1994 he was with IBM's Federal Systems Division, and was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1993. In August, 1994 he joined the University of Notre Dame as first holder of the endowed McCourtney Chair in Computer Science and Engineering. He has served as both Department Chair and Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering. He is also an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at JPL. He holds over 30 patents and is author of two books, including the first text on the now ubiquitous technique of hardware pipelining. His current research areas include massively parallel processing architectures, advanced VLSI and nano technologies, non von Neumann models of programming and execution, parallel algorithms and applications, and their impact on computer architecture. Major current projects currently include merging logic and memory on the same chip, inherently low power computer architectures, and the use of nano level technologies such as Quantum dot Cellular Automata. Prior projects include a multi-threaded parallel processor which has flown on every Space Shuttle, the IBM 3838 Array processor which was for a time the fastest floating point machine marketed by IBM, EXECUBE - the world's first parallel processor on a DRAM chip, the HTMT petaflops project, and lead for a recent DARPA study on technologies for exascale computing.

Ioannis (John) Kymissis received his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering in 1998, 1999, and 2003 respectively. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on organic thin film transistors, and his Ph.D. was conducted at the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT on field emission displays. After graduation he worked as a post-doc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics and as a consulting engineer for QDVision, an MIT-based startup which is developing and commercializing a novel light emitting architecture. In 2006, he joined the faculty of electrical engineering at Columbia University. Prof. Kymissis's thesis work in organic field effect transistors demonstrated how manipulation of the crystal structure formed in small molecule organic field effect transistors impacts device performance, and has led to several innovations in contact engineering and lithographic processing. His current research is the application of advanced organic thin film processing to the fabrication of large area sensing and actuation devices capable of a range of functionalities. Prof. Kymissis has won several awards for his work including the IEEE Electron Device Society Paul Rappaport award, the IVNC Shoulders-Grey-Spindt award, the NSF CAREER award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation award, and a Google faculty award.

Hae-Seung Lee received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984, where he developed self-calibration techniques for A/D converters. Since 1984, he has been on the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he is now Professor and the Director of Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems. From 1985 to 1999, he has acted as Consultant to Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA, and MIT Lincoln Laboratories. He is on the Technology Advisory Board for Sensata Technologies, and served the Technology Advisory Committee for Samsung Electronics and Cypress Semiconductor from 2004 to 2007 and from 2005 to 2007, respectively. His research interests are in the areas of analog integrated circuits with the emphasis on analog-to-digital converters in scaled CMOS technologies. Prof. Lee is a recipient of the 1988 Presidential Young Investigators' Award, and a co-recipient ISSCC Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award in 2002 and 2006. He has served a number of technical program committees for various IEEE conferences, including the International Electron Devices Meeting, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, and the IEEE Symposium on VLSI circuits. He is an elected AdCom member of the Solid-State Circuits Society. Prof. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE.

Xin Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fudan University (P. R. China) in 1998 and 2001 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. He is currently an assistant research professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked on integrated circuit (IC) design methodologies for over 8 years, and has extensive experience in statistical IC modeling, analysis and optimization. In 2005, he co-founded Xigmix Inc. and served as the chief technical officer until the company was acquired in 2007. Prof. Li has won several awards, including the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award in 2004 for his work on parametric yield prediction.

Tsu-Jae King Liu received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1984, 1986 and 1994, respectively. From 1992 to 1996 she was a Member of Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 1996 she joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where she is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. Dr. Liu's awards include the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for co-development of the FinFET and the NAE Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectureship (2006). Her expertise is in advanced transistor designs, materials, and process technology for deeply scaled logic and memory devices. She has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, holds over 70 patents, and is an IEEE Fellow.

Ken Mai received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1993, 1997, and 2005, respectively. His research interests include high-performance circuit design, secure IC design, reconfigurable computing, and computer architecture. He joined the Faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University in 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2007 and the George Tallman Ladd Research Award in 2008. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the IEEE.

Dejan Markovic received the Dipl.Ing. degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000 and 2006, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Ph.D. student at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center where his research focused on circuit and architecture techniques to implement area- and energy-efficient digital signal processing ICs. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles as an Assistant Professor. His current research is focused on digital ICs and architectures for parallel data processing in future radio and healthcare systems, design with post-CMOS devices, optimization methods and supporting design methodologies. He has won several research and teaching awards. Recently, he was awarded 2007 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize at UC Berkeley in recognition of the impact of his Ph.D. work. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009.

Teresa H. Meng is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research activities during the first 10 years at Stanford focused on low-power circuit and system design, video signal processing, and wireless communications. In 1999, Dr. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which is a leading developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless network communications products. She returned to Stanford in 2000 to continue her research and teaching at the University. Dr. Meng has received many awards and honors, including the 2009 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award, the McKnight Technological Innovations in Neurosciences Award in 2007, the DEMO@15 World-Class Innovator Award in 2005, the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004, the Bosch Faculty Scholar Award in 2003, the Innovator of the Year Award by MIT Sloan School eBA in 2002, the CIO 20/20 Vision Award in 2002, named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring in 2001, a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an IBM Faculty Development Award, all in 1989, and the Eli Jury Award from U.C. Berkeley in 1988. Dr. Meng's current research interests are bio-implant technologies, neural signal processing and non-invasive medical treatments using focused EM energy. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley.

Subhasish Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Stanford University where he leads the Stanford Robust Systems Group. His research interests include robust system design, VLSI design, CAD, validation and test, and design for emerging nanotechnologies. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. Prof. Mitra has co-authored 100+ technical papers, and has invented design and test techniques that have seen wide-spread proliferation in the semiconductor industry. His X-Compact technique for test compression is used by 50+ Intel products, and is supported by major CAD tools. His work on imperfection-immune circuits using carbon nanotubes, jointly with his students and collaborators, has been highlighted as "a significant breakthrough" by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, MIT Technology Review, EE Times, and several others. His major honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (the highest honor bestowed by the US government on early career outstanding scientists and engineers), National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Terman Fellowship, IEEE CAS/CEDA Pederson Award (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Best Paper), ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference Best Paper, a Divisional Recognition Award from Intel "for a Breakthrough Soft Error Protection Technology," and the Intel Achievement Award, Intel's highest corporate honor, "for a breakthrough test compression technology."

Tamal Mukherjee received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987, 1990, and 1995 respectively. He is presently a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include design techniques and methodologies at the boundary of analog, RF, microelectromechanical systems and microfluidic systems. His current work focuses on RF MEMS passive components and their insertion into RF circuits for both enhanced performance and to achieve frequency reconfigurability. He is also integrating MEMS inertial sensors with RF sensors for localization applications in GPS-denied environments.

Boris Murmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, CA. He received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. From 1994 to 1997, he was with Neutron Microelectronics, Hanau, Germany, where he developed low-power and smart-power ASICs in automotive CMOS technology. Dr. Murmann's research interests are in the area of mixed-signal integrated circuit design, with special emphasis on data converters and sensor interfaces. He currently serves as a member of the International Solid-State-Circuits Conference (ISSCC) program committee. Dr. Murmann was a co-recipient of the Meritorious Paper Award at the 2005 U.S. Government Microcircuit and Critical Technology Conference and the Best Student Paper Award at the 2008 VLSI Circuit Symposium. In 2008, he received the Best Invited Paper Award at the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). In 2009, Prof. Murmann was awarded the 2009 Agilent Early Career Professor Award for his contributions to digitally assisted data conversion.

Ali M. Niknejad received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 and 2000. From 2000-2002 he worked in industry where he was involved with the design and research of CMOS RF integrated circuits and devices for wireless communication applications. Presently he is an associate professor in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He is a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) and also the co-director of the BSIM Research Group. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is currently serving on the TPC for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). His current research interests lie within the area of RF/microwave and mm-wave integrated circuits, particularly as applied to wireless and broadband communication circuits. His interests also include device modeling and numerical techniques in electromagnetics.

Borivoje Nikolic is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the Dipl.Ing. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1999. He is a scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and his research activities include digital and analog integrated circuit design and VLSI implementation of communications and signal processing algorithms. He is co-author of the textbook Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, 2nd ed, Prentice-Hall, 2003. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2003, College of Engineering Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize and Anil K. Jain Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California at Davis in 1999, as well as the City of Belgrade Award for the Best Diploma Thesis in 1992. For work with his students and colleagues he received the Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium of Low-Power Electronics in 2005, and the 2004 Jack Kilby Award for the Outstanding Student Paper at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Kenneth O received his S.B, S.M, and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1984, 1984, and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1994, Dr. 8 worked at Analog Devices Inc. developing sub-micron CMOS processes for mixed signal applications and high speed bipolar and BiCMOS processes for WF and mixed signal applications. He is currently a professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville. His research group (Silicon Microwave integrated Circuits and Systems Research Group) is developing circuits and components required to implement analog and digital systems operating between 1 GHz and 1 THz using silicon BC technologies. The works of group have been reported in EETimes, Scientific American, lEEE Spectrum and others. He has authored and coauthored 180 Journal and conference publications, as well as holding nine patents. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Kairos Microsystems Corporation. He has been elected to the Adcom of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society in 2008. In June of 2009, Dr. O will start his new appointment as the Director of SWC Texas Analog Center of Excellence and TI Distinguished Chair in Analog Circuits and Systems at University of Texas, Dallas.

Jeyanandh Paramesh received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1996, the M.S. degree from Oregon State University, Corvallis, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2006, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has a wealth of industrial experience, having designed high-performance data converters at AKM Semiconductor (Analog Devices), and cellular transceivers at Motorola (Freescale). He has also been employed as a graduate student researcher at Intel. As a graduate student, he developed and demonstrated the first CMOS multi-antenna receiver. In 2002, he led a student team that placed first in Phase I of the SRC SiGe Design Contest for the project "A 10-GHz Smart Antenna Receiver in 0.25um SiGe BiCMOS Technology. Dr. Paramesh is a recipient of the Chevron Engineering Scholarship, the Intel Foundation PhD Fellowship, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award

Lawrence Pileggi (Center Director) began his career as a biomedical circuit designer at the Foundation for Science and Technology in Pittsburgh, PA, then as an integrated circuit and system designer at Westinghouse Research and Development. During his two years at Westinghouse he was awarded the corporation's highest engineering achievement recognition for designing the industry's first low-voltage elevator controller. Later that year he became a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. His Ph.D. work, Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation for Timing Analysis (AWE) was the first to apply Pade' approximations for model order reduction of RLC interconnect circuits. Since graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 1989, he was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin, and is currently the Tanoto professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. He and his students are actively involved in all aspects of circuit-level modeling, design, and design methodologies. One notable work was the development of the RICE tool that is used commercially all over the world for interconnect analysis. He has received a number of awards for his teaching and research, such as SRC Technical Excellence Awards in 1992 and 1999, the inaugural Richard A. Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award in 2007, and the SRC Aristotle award in 2008. He has consulted for various semiconductor and EDA companies, and was co-founder of Fabbrix Inc., that was acquired by PDF Solutions. He is a co-author of "Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods," McGraw-Hill, 1995 and "IC Interconnect Analysis," Kluwer, 2002. He has published over 200 refereed conference and journal papers and holds 20 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of IEEE.

Ada Poon received her B.Eng degree from the EEE department at the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. degree from the EECS department at the University of California at Berkeley in 2004. Her dissertation attempted to connect information theory with electromagnetic theory so as to better understand the fundamental limit of wireless channels. Upon graduation, she spent one year at Intel as a senior research scientist building reconfigurable baseband processors for flexible radios. Afterwards, she joined her advisor's startup company, SiBeam Inc., architecting Gigabit wireless transceivers leveraging 60 GHz CMOS and MIMO antenna systems. After two years in industries, she returned to academic and joined the faculty of the ECE department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since then, she has changed her research direction from wireless communication to biomedical systems. In 2008, she moved back to California and joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She is a Terman Fellow at Stanford University.

Gabriel M. Rebeiz is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He has contributed to planar mm-wave and THz antennas, imaging arrays, mixers and multipliers from 1988-1998. His group has optimized the dielectric-lens antenna which is the most widely used antenna at mm-wave and THz frequencies. Prof. Rebeiz' group also recently developed a 16-element 30-50 GHz phased array on a single silicon chip, making it one of the most complex silicon RFIC at mm-waves. As a consultant, he developed the 24 GHz single-chip radar with USM/ViaSat, X/Ku-Band and Ka/W-band phased arrays for defense applications, the RFMD RF MEMS switch and the Agilent RF MEMS switch. Prof. Rebeiz is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, an URSI Koga Gold Medal Recipient, an IEEE MTT Distinguished Young Engineer (2003), and is the recipient of the IEEE MTT 2000 Microwave Prize. He also received the 1998 Amoco Teaching Award given to the best undergraduate teacher at the University of Michigan, and the 2008 Teacher of the Year Award at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD. He is the Director of the UCSD/DARPA Center on RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals. He is the author of the book, RF MEMS: Theory, Design and Technology, Wiley (2003).

Rob A. Rutenbar received his B.S. degree from Wayne State University in 1978 and M.S and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1979 and 1984, respectively. In 1984 he joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and in 2002 he was awarded the Stephen J. Jatras (E'47) Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2010, he moved to the University of Illinois where he is currently the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and Head, Department of Computer Science. He has worked on custom circuit design technology for over 20 years. In 1998, on a leave of absence from CMU, he co-founded Neolinear, Inc., and served as its Chief Scientist until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2004. He was the founding Director of the C2S2 focus center, at its peak a consortium of nearly 20 universities, chartered by the US semiconductor industry and DARPA to work on next-generation circuit design challenges. Prof. Rutenbar has won many different awards: he is the 2001 co-winner of the Semiconductor Research Corporation Aristotle Award for excellence in education and, most recently, the 2007 IEEE Circuits and Systems Industrial Pioneer Award, for his work in making analog synthesis tools commercially successful. His work has been featured in venues ranging from EETimes to the Economist magazine. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.

Kenneth L. Shepard received the B.S.E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Research Staff Member and Manager with the VLSI Design Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he was responsible for the design methodology for IBM's G4 S/390 microprocessors. Since 1997, he has been with Columbia University, New York, where he is now Professor. He also was Chief Technology Officer of CadMOS Design Technology, San Jose, CA, until its acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in 2001. His current research interests include design tools for advanced CMOS technology, on-chip test and measurement circuitry, low-power design techniques for digital signal processing, low-power intrachip communication, and CMOS mixed-signal design for biological applications. Dr. Shepard was Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the 2002 and 2003 International Conference on Computer Design, respectively. He has served on the Program Committees for ISSCC, VLSI Symposium, ICCAD, DAC, ISCAS, ISQED, GLS-VLSI, TAU, and ICCD. He received the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize in 1992, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1998, and the 1999 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems and is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Charles G. Sodini received the B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University, in 1974, and the M.S.E.E. and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981 and 1982, respectively. He was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories from 1974 to 1982, where he worked on the design of MOS memory. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1983, where he is currently the LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests are focused on mixed signal integrated circuit and system design. Along with Prof. Roger T. Howe, he is a co-author of an undergraduate text on integrated circuits and devices entitled "Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach." Dr. Sodini was a co-founder of SMaL Camera Technologies a leader in imaging technology for consumer digital still cameras and machine vision cameras for automotive applications. He has served on a variety of IEEE Conference Committees, including the International Electron Device Meeting where he was the 1989 General Chairman. He has served on the IEEE Electron Device Society Administrative Committee and was president of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society from 2002-2004. He is currently the Chair of the Executive Committee for the VLSI Symposia and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Costas J. Spanos received the Electrical Engineering Diploma with honors from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1988 he joined the faculty at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Division. From 1994 to 2000 he was the Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory, and from 2004 to 2008 has been the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. Professor Spanos has served in the technical committees of numerous conferences and was the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing from 1991 to 1994. He has published more than 200 referred articles, has received several best paper awards and has co-authored a textbook in semiconductor manufacturing. In 2000 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions and leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. His present research interests include the development of flexible manufacturing systems, the application of statistical analysis in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits, and the development and deployment of novel sensors and computer-aided techniques in semiconductor manufacturing.

Vladimir Stojanovic is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He has a Dipl Ing in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include design, modeling and optimization of integrated systems, from standard VLSI blocks to CMOS-based electrical and optical interconnects. He is also interested in design and implementation of digital communication techniques in high-speed interfaces and high-speed mixed-signal IC design. At Stanford, Vladimir was engaged in circuit and system design of high-speed electrical links, hierarchical modeling and convex optimization of VLSI systems, and system design of modal compensation techniques in multi-mode fiber links. At Rambus, Vladimir was one of the main contributors to the development of Rambus' next generation high-speed serial link technology (circuit and systems techniques for adaptive, equalized links, with multi-level modulation and advanced clock and data recovery).

Andrzej J. Strojwas is the Joseph F. and Nancy Keithley Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined CMU in 1983 after earning his Ph.D. from CMU in 1982 and his MS in 1976 from the Technical University of Warsaw, both in Electrical Engineering. His graduate work resulted in the statistical process and device simulator, FABRICS, which was quickly adopted by leading U.S. semiconductor manufacturers at a time when foreign competition threatened their survival. He is a pioneer and internationally recognized leader in the field of design for manufacturability of integrated circuits. In 1990 he became the founding co-director of the Center of Excellence for Rapid Yield Learning, one of only a few such centers established at top universities by SEMATECH, a consortium of U.S. Semiconductor manufacturers and the U.S. government. He is co-founder of PDF Solutions, Inc., which commercializes manufacturability methodology and software developed at CMU. He has won several Best Paper and Inventor Recognition Awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and received the Golden Jubilee Medal for outstanding service to IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. In 1993 he was conferred the title of State Professor by the president of his native Poland.

David Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at A.T. & T. Bell Laboratories. Since 1995, he has been at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor. He received a 1967 NSERC 4-year graduate fellowship from the government of Canada in 1989, a NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Best Paper Awards at the Infocom 1998 and Infocom 2001 conferences, the Erlang Prize in 2000 from the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2001, the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003, and the 2009 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He has given plenary talks at international conferences such as ICASSP in 2006, MobiCom in 2007, CISS in 2008, and ISIT in 2009. He was the Technical Program co-chair of the International Symposium on Information Theory in 2004, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2001 to 2003. He is a coauthor, with Pramod Viswanath, of the text "Fundamentals of Wireless Communication", which has been used in over 60 institutions around the world.

H.-S. Philip Wong received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1988 from Lehigh University. He joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, in 1988. In September, 2004, he joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering. While at IBM, he worked on CCD and CMOS image sensors, double-gate/multi-gate MOSFET, device simulations for advanced/novel MOSFET, strained silicon, wafer bonding, ultra-thin body SOI, extremely short gate FET, germanium MOSFET, carbon nanotube FET, and phase change memory. He held various positions from Research Staff Member to Manager, and Senior Manager. While he was Senior Manager, he had the responsibility of shaping and executing IBM's strategy on nanoscale science and technology as well as exploratory silicon devices and semiconductor technology. His present research covers a broad range of topics including carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, self-assembly, exploratory logic devices, nanoelectromechanical devices, and novel memory devices. Novel devices often enable new concepts in circuit and system designs. His research also includes explorations into circuits and systems that are device-driven. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He served on the IEDM committee from 1998 to 2007 and was the Technical Program Chair in 2006 and General Chair in 2007. He served on the ISSCC program committee from 1998 - 2004, and was the Chair of the Image Sensors, Displays, and MEMS subcommittee from 2003-2004. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Symposia of VLSI Technology and Circuits. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology in 2005 - 2006.

Gregory W. Wornell received the B.A.Sc. degree (with honors) from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in 1985, 1987 and 1991, respectively. Since 1991 he has been on the faculty at MIT, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At MIT he leads the Signals, Information, and Algorithms Laboratory within the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and co-directs the MIT Center for Wireless Networking. He has held visiting appointments at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1999-2000, at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, in 1999, and at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, in 1992-3. His research interests and publications span the areas of signal processing, digital communication, and information theory, and include algorithms and architectures for sensor and imaging systems, wireless and broadband networks, and multimedia content management. He has been involved in the Signal Processing and Information Theory societies of the IEEE in a variety of capacities, and maintains a number of close industrial relationships and activities. He has won a number of awards for both his research and teaching, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.