Clemson, Biological Systems & Interfaces (joint hire with NanoScience).
Aman Behal received the 5 year integrated M.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Controls and Robotics from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, in 2001. Between 2002 and 2003, he worked as a post doctoral fellow in the bio engineering department at Clemson University. In 2003, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY where he currently holds the position of tenure track assistant professor. His research interests are in applications of nonlinear and adaptive control techniques to engineering systems. Specifically, he specializes in control, estimation, and identifier synthesis for nonlinear systems. He has authored or co authored over 15 refereed journal publications and two research monographs. Application areas of interest include rehabilitation robotics, systems biology, FACTS devices, visual servoing, and aeronautical structures.

University of Michigan, RF/Microwave Communication Circuits & Systems.
Nader Behdad received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in September 2003 and the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a design engineer for the Electronics Research Center at Sharif Unviersity of Technology. Since January 2002 he has been working as a research assistant at the Center for Wireless Integrated Micro-Systems of the University of Michigan. Mr. Behdad is the recipient of the best student paper award in the Antenna Applications Symposium held in Monticelo, IL, in September 2003, winner of the second prize in the student paper competition of the USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO, in January 2004, and the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies of The University of Michigan in 2005.

University of California-Irvine, Bioinformatics.
Jianlin Cheng has completed his PhD candidacy under advisor Pierre Baldi in bioinformatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include algorithms and applications for bioinformatics, systems biology, machine/statistical learning, and data mining. He has an MS in computer science from Utah State University and a BS in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.

Xun Gong received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from FuDan University in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004. He is currently with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Central Florida. He was with Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, as a post-doctoral research associate. His current research is focused on integrated high-Q resonators and filters, integrated RF front-end, metamaterial, vertical circuit integration and packaging.

Brown University, Graphics/Human Computer Interaction (starts Spring '07).
Joseph J. LaViola Jr. is currently a postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science at Brown University. He works under the direction of Andries van Dam and Robert Zeleznik in the Computer Graphics Group. His primary research interests include pen-based interactive computing, 3D interaction techniques, predictive motion tracking, multimodal interaction in virtual environments, and user interface evaluation. His work has appeared in journals such as Presence and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, and he has presented research at conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH, the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, IEEE Virtual Reality, and Eurographics Virtual Environments. He has also co-authored "3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice," the first comprehensive book on 3D user interfaces. Joseph received a Sc.M. in Computer Science in 2000, a Sc.M. in Applied Mathematics in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005 from Brown University.

Penn State University, VLSI.
Jooheung Lee is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Before his joining MDL/EMC^2 Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in 2001, he was with Wireless Multimedia Communications Laboratory at the R&D Complex of LG Electronics in Korea, where he worked on low power video codec ASIC design for mobile applications. His research interests include multimedia information systems, low power VLSI systems design, and electronic design automation. He was a recipient of Information and Telecommunication National Scholarship from Korean government in 2001 and is a member of the IEEE and Tau Beta Pi.

Kenneth O. Stanley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on artificially evolving complex solutions to difficult real-world tasks. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering and a minor in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. He received an M.S. in Computer Science in 1999, and a Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won best paper awards for his work on NEAT (at the 2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) and for his work on NERO (at the IEEE 2005 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games), and also won the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Award (at the 2006 Game Developers conference) for NERO. He has published papers in JAIR, Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and Artificial Life journals.

MIT, Computer Vision.
Marshall Tappen has recently completed his PhD candidacy in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from BYU in 2000 and received a MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2002. He is the recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Computer Architecture, OS and High Performance Computing.
Jun Wang is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Laboratory for Computer Architecture and Storage System (CASS) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He has over three and a half years of professional experience. His current areas of interests are high performance and low power computer architectures, high performance computing, file and storage systems, Peer to Peer, cluster and grid computing and performance evaluation.

Prof. Wang received the 2005 DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Award. He secured an NSF Computer Systems Research grant and an NSF Computer Systems Architecture seed grant in 2005 and 2004, respectively. He has been serving as NSF and DOE grant proposal reviewers and panelists. He is a USENIX campus liaison at UNL. He has published over 30 refereed and invited journal and conference papers and is a reviewer for IEEE transactions on Computers, IEEE transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Caltech, Quantum Computing.
Pawel Wocjan studied Computer Science in Germany at the University of Karlsruhe and at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. He completed his Ph.D. thesis, "Computational Power of Hamiltonians in Quantum Computing," at the University of Karlsruhe in 2003. He has been a Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology since 2004. His research is focused on quantum computing and quantum information theory.

Cliff C. Zou received the PhD degree in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, in 2005, BS and MS degrees in Department of Automation from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.

He is an Assistant Professor in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida. His research interests include computer and network security, network modeling and performance evaluation.