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Dr. Nikoubin is a Professor of Instruction in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2009 and M.Sc. and B.Sc., both in Electrical Engineering-Electronics, from K.N.T. University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, UAS, from 2012 to 2013. His research interests are broadly in low-power VLSI design, Approximate computing, Hardware and ML, Portable and Wearable Electronics, and Edge-intelligent systems. He is an IEEE senior member and served as general chair of the DCAS conference in 2020 & 2022; he was the publication chair of GLSVLSI 2022. He is currently serving as publication chair of the GLSVLSI 2023 conference and Awards and Proposals chair of DCAS2023.

Prof. Lee received the B.Eng., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1998, 2000, and 2004, respectively. In January 2005, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he is currently a Full Professor. During his graduate studies, he conducted research in the area of analog and power management integrated circuits, which resulted in 13 first-authored leading IEEE publications, the first Best Student Paper Award in the 2002 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, and the first switched-capacitor power converter paper ever received by the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in 2005. His current research interests include power management integrated circuits for automotive, LED lighting, and computing systems; soft-switching converters and control methodologies; wireless power and energy harvesting technologies; and low-power analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Prof. Lee’s research program has been supported by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, ARPA-E, Semiconductor Research Corporation, and numerous major semiconductor IC companies

Prior to joining UTD in 2013, Prof. Marshall was with Texas Instruments Incorporated, where he was a TI Fellow, leading teams developing discrete high voltage and current bipolar and Darlington devices, analog bipolar and bimos IC design, and power and mixed signal integrated circuits for automotive and computer peripheral applications, on technology nodes from 10um to 20nm. Andrew also worked on benchmarking of semiconductors IC processes, including performance characteristics of MOS and passive devices. This also included development of new circuit techniques for low voltage and high performance circuit operation and verification. Since joining The University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Marshall has been involved in SRC and industry projects that have ranged from beyond CMOS circuit benchmarking to advanced analog design, volatile and not volatile memory development and evaluation, and low power and energy harvesting applications. He also works on advanced device security, particularly in the area of analog obfuscation.

Dr. Marshall is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Professional Engineer, registered in the state of Texas. He serves on the steering committee of the IEEE System on Chip Conference (SOCC), and was co-general chair of the 2011 SOCC conference. He is also on the steering committee of the Dallas Circuits and Systems Society Workshop (DCAS), and served as general chair in 2004 and 2010.

Dr. Marshall is a named inventor on 90 patents, and over 100 technical papers, 5 book chapters and two books.

Greg is a Senior Fellow within Lockheed Martin Corporation where his focus is on power conversion, power semiconductors including SiC and GaN, and low noise analog electronics and simulations in general.  Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in 2009 he was with Texas Instruments where as a Member Group Technical Staff he was the Analog Design Manager for the Standard Linear & Logic Product Group and then later Managed the Application Specific Product Line within the Mixed Signal Automotive Group.  During this time he was work included development of high-voltage bipolar processes, semiconductor modeling, as well as releasing designs into various product lines including power management, amplifiers, and communications.  Additionally, Greg is a member of the Silicon Carbide Working Group within Power America,  a Senior Member IEEE, and has been granted 17 patents in the areas of semiconductor processes, analog IC design, and power electronic systems.

Dr. Oren Eliezer received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Tel-Aviv University in 1988 and 1997 and his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2008.

He has 3 decades of experience in the design and productization of communication systems and semiconductors for wireless applications ranging from defense systems to consumer market products.

After 6 years of military service as an officer and wireless communications engineer, he cofounded startup company Butterfly, which was acquired by Texas Instruments (TI) in 1999.  He spent over a decade at TI, where he was a senior member of the technical staff in TI’s Wireless Business Unit.

Since 2009 he has been involved in several startup companies and has taught a course on RF system design at the University of North Texas.   He is now a principal engineer at Samsung Semiconductor in San Diego, where he is involved in the development of millimeter-wave transceiver ICs.

He has authored and coauthored over 60 journal and conference papers and over 40 patents, and has given over 60 invited talks and seminars.

He is a senior member of the IEEE, has been awarded multiple IEEE outstanding volunteer awards, and serves on the organizing committees of several IEEE conferences.

Sudipto Chakraborty received his B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1998 and Ph.D in EE from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002. He worked as a researcher in Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) till 2004. Since 2004 to 2016, he was a senior member of technical staff at Texas Instruments where he contributed to low power integrated circuit design in more than 10 product families in the areas of automotive, wireless, medical and microcontrollers. Since 2017, he has been working at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center where he leads the low power circuit design for next generation quantum computing applications using nano CMOS technology nodes. He has authored or co-authored more than 75 papers, two books and holds 76 US patents. He has served in the technical program committees of various conferences including CICC, RFIC, IMS and has been elected as an IBM master inventor in 2022 for his contributions.

Dr. Gayatri Mehta is a Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Texas. She is the director of the Reconfigurable Computing Lab at UNT. She received her Ph. D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. Her research interests are broadly in the areas of  electronic design automation, reconfigurable computing, low-power VLSI design, system-on-a chip design, embedded systems, and portable/wearable computing. She is an IEEE senior member.

Assistant Professor and Texas Instruments’ Early Career Chair Awardee and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2017 B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, 2012. Dr. Ifana Mahbub joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Dallas as an Assistant Professor in the Fall 2022, where she is leading the Integrated Biomedical and Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems Laboratory (iBioRFCASL). Before that she was an assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of North Texas for five years. Her research interests include energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems design for read-out, wireless communication, and wireless power transfer for various implantable and wearable sensors. Her recent research interests also include ultrawideband/mm-wave phased-array antenna design for far-field wireless power transfer and V2V communication for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Dr. Mahbub is the recipient of the NSF “Early Career Award” (2020), the DARPA “Young Faculty Award” (2021), and various other grants from ONR and NSF. In recognition of her outstanding research achievements, Professor Mahbub received the Texas Instrument’s Early Career Chair Award in 2022. She is currently serving as the secretary for the URSI commission K, as a guest editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation and MDPI Sensors Journal, and as the publications chair for IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and System and IEEE Dallas Circuits and System conferences.

Durante sus estudios de posgrado, realizó investigaciones en el área de circuitos integrados analógicos y de administración de energía, lo que dio como resultado 13 publicaciones líderes de IEEE de primer autor, el primer Premio al Mejor Artículo de Estudiante en la Conferencia de Circuitos Integrados Personalizados de IEEE de 2002 y la primera publicación conmutada. documento sobre convertidores de potencia de capacitores jamás recibido por la Conferencia Internacional de Circuitos de Estado Sólido IEEE en 2005. Sus intereses de investigación actuales incluyen circuitos integrados de administración de energía para automoción, iluminación LED y sistemas informáticos; convertidores de conmutación suave y metodologías de control; tecnologías inalámbricas de recolección de energía y energía; y circuitos integrados analógicos y de señal mixta de baja potencia. El programa de investigación del Prof. Lee ha sido

Terry Blake was the eNotice Coordinator for 2022.  In the past, he has been the Chapter Chair, the Meetings Chair and the Conference Chair.

He retired from Texas Instruments in 2012, after working there for 32 years, latterly on embedded fuseROMs and mask-programmable ROMs.  Previously at TI he worked on SOI rad-hard SRAMs and on BiCMOS gate arrays, among many other things.  He obtained more than 20 patents.

Currently Graduate Student in Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Dallas. Yagna has a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. Before Moving to UTD, He worked for OpenText, Bangalore, India for 2.5 years in multiple roles as Engineering Intern, Associate Quality Assurance Engineer and finally as a Associate Software Developer.