Dr.Yu Zhu has been a member of the consulting staff in Custom IC at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. since 2002.  He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Nanjing University in 1995, his M.S. at Ohio State University in 1998, and his Ph.D. at University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign in 2002.  He is a member of the IEEE and SigmaXi.

Dr. Andreas Cangellaris has been a full professor at University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign since 1997.  His research work has been in the area of applied and computational electromagnetics with emphasis on thier application to electrical modeling simulation of RF/microwave components and systems, high-speed digital interconnects at the board, package, and chip level, as well as the modeling and simulation of electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference.  He has co-authored more than 150 refereed papers and three book chapters on topics related to computational electromagnetics and interconnects and package modeling and simulation.  He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in January 2000.