ROB A. RUTENBAR, PhD, received his PhD in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, and subsequently joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University where he is currently the Stephen J. Jatras Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

GEORGES G. E. GIELEN, PhD, received his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. After being a visiting lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley, he became a faculty member at the ESAT-MICAS laboratory of the electrical engineering department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where he is now a full-time professor.

BRIAN A. ANTAO, PhD, received his PhD in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University. He is currently working with Silicon Metrics Corporation in Austin, Texas, developing advanced modeling solutions for Very Deep Sub-Micron (VDSM) characterization tools.