William R. Bidermann (M'89) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in EE & CS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978.
Currently he is Vice President of Sensor Development at Pixim, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup delivering high dynamic range CMOS image sensors to the security market. He managed the Advanced Development Group at DEC, which produced a self contained liquid nitrogen cooled computer system and the groundbreaking Alpha microprocessor. Mr. Bidermann has over the past 20 years contributed to the first uVAX microprocessors, managed the first SPARC V9 implementation at HaL Computers, and led the development of a novel media-processor at Chromatic Research. He began his career at HP Labs, where he designed dynamic RAMs and EEPROM devices.

Mr. Bidermann currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Symposia on VLSI Circuits and Technology (Treasurer) and has previously served as the General Chairman ('99-'00), Program Chair ('97-98) and as a Program Committee Member since 1993. He has twice been a member of the ISSCC Program Committee and has edited several special editions of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.

David A. Johns (incumbent) received the BASc, MASc, and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1980, 1983 and 1989, respectively. In 1988 joined the University of Toronto where he is currently a full Professor. He has ongoing research programs in analog integrated circuits with particular emphasis on digital communications, oversampling, signal processing, PLLs, ADCs, DACs, and adaptive filtering. His research work has resulted in more than 40 publications as well as the 1999 IEEE Darlington Award. He is co-author of the Analog Integrated Circuit Design (Wiley, 1997) textbook and has given numerous industrial Short Courses. In addition to his academic experience, he has four years of semiconductor industrial experience during 1980, 1983-85, and 1995, and is co-founder of Snowbush, a microelectronics company. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II from 1993 to 1995 and for Part I from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Johns is an IEEE Fellow.

Terri S. Fiez received the B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Idaho, Moscow. In 1990, she received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis. From 1985 to 1987 and in 1988 she worked at Hewlett-Packard Corp. in Boise and Corvallis, respectively.
In 1990, Dr. Fiez joined Washington State University as an assistant professor where she became an associate professor in 1996. In the fall of 1999, Prof. Fiez joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University as Professor and department head. She became Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2003. She has been involved in a variety of IEEE activities including serving on the committees for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, ISCAS, as a guest editor of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Fiez was previously awarded the NSF Young Investigator Award and the Solid-State Circuit Predoctoral Fellowship. Her research interests are in the design of high performance analog signal processing building blocks, simulation and modeling of substrate coupling effects in mixed-signal ICs, and innovative engineering education approaches.

Takayasu Sakurai (S'77-M'78-SM'01-F'03) ( incumbent) received the Ph.D. degree in EE from the University of Tokyo in 1981. In 1981 he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he designed CMOS DRAM, SRAM, RISC processors, DSPs, and SoC Solutions. He has worked extensively on interconnect delay and capacitance modeling known as Sakurai model and alpha power-law MOS model. From 1988 through1990, he was a visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley, where he conducted research in the field of VLSI CAD. From 1996, he has been a professor at the University of Tokyo, working on low-power high-speed VLSI, memory design, interconnects, ubiquitous electronics, organic IC's and large-area electronics. He has published more than 350 technical publications including 70 invited papers and several books and filed more than 100 patents. He served as a conference chair for the Symp. on VLSI Circuits, and ICICDT, a vice chair for ASPDAC and a program committee member for ISSCC, CICC, DAC, ICCAD, FPGA workshop, ISLPED, TAU, and other international conferences. He is a plenary speaker for the 2003 ISSCC. He is also an IEEE Fellow, an elected AdCom member for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and an IEEE CAS distinguished lecturer.

Mehmet Soyuer received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, subsequently joining IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member. His work has involved high-frequency mixed-signal integrated circuit designs, in particular monolithic phase-locked-loop designs for clock and data recovery, clock multiplication, and frequency synthesis using silicon and SiGe technologies. He managed the Mixed-Signal Communications Integrated-Circuit Design group from 1997 to 2000, and since then has been the Senior Manager of the Communication Circuits and Systems Department at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

Dr. Soyuer has authored numerous papers in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, RF, microwave, and nonlinear electronic circuit design, and he is an inventor and co-inventor of eight U.S. patents. Since 1997, he has been a technical program committee member of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits from 1998 through 2000, and was one of the Guest Editors for the December 2003 Special ISSCC Issue. Dr. Soyuer also chaired the Analog, MEMS and Mixed-Signal Electronics Committee of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) in 2001. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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