Kevin Almeroth is Professor of Computer Science, the Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning of the College of Engineering, and the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a founding faculty member of the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program, the Technology Management Program (TMP), and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program. His principal research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation.

Almeroth is a co-founder Santa Barbara Labs, a start-up company in government Internet architecture design, and serves as an advisor for Occam Networks, Techknowledge Point, and Airplay Networks. He collaborates and has received research funding from Intel, Cisco, QAD, Microsoft and Lockheed, and is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.

Karl Åström (UC Santa Barbara /Lund University, Sweden) is the Chair of Automatic Control at Lund University, Sweden, and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He worked extensively on inertial guidance systems for the Research Institute of National Defense in Stockholm. He subsequently worked for IBM on Computer Control in research labs in Stockholm, Yorktown Heights and San Jose, where he developed new methods for system identification and minimum variance control that were applied to control of paper machines.

Åström has broad interests in automatic control, including stochastic control, system identification, adaptive control, computer control and computer-aided control engineering. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Åström has received numerous honors, including four honorary doctorates, the Quazza Medal from IFAC, the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from ASME, the IEEE Field Award in Control Systems Science and the IEEE Medal of Honor.

Kaustav Banerjee is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, where he also directs the Nanoelectronics Research Lab and is an affiliated faculty member at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). His present research interests focus on nanometer scale issues in high-performance VLSI, and on circuits and systems issues in emerging nanoelectronics.

Banerjee's doctoral research at Berkeley and subsequent work at Stanford on thermal issues in integrated circuits was the foundation for establishing Gradient Design Automation Inc., the first company to introduce temperature-aware IC design technology in the electronic design automation industry. Before coming to UC Santa Barbara he held positions at Stanford University, Texas Instruments Inc., the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Intel’s Circuit Research Labs.

Dan Blumenthal is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Director for the Center on Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology (MOST), and head of the Optical Communications and Photonic Networks Research Group at UC Santa Barbara.

Blumenthal is co-founder of Calient Networks, a manufacturer of photonic switching systems based in San Jose, CA. He is the recipient of a 1999 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an honor bestowed by the White House and the Department of Defense; a 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator; and a 1997 Office of Naval research Young Investigator Award.

John Bowers is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Multidisciplinary Optical Switching Technology Center (MOST) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Bowers is cofounder of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management (now the Technology Management Program), and a cofounder of Terabit Technology and Calient Networks. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UCSB.

Bowers's research interests are primarily focused on optoelectronic devices and optical networking. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Bowers has a strong relationship with Intel—together they have developed both the world's first electrically driven hybrid silicon laser and the world's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser. Both are critical steps toward achieving lower cost, lower power, more compact devices.

Ted Cais is the President of MC Research & Innovation Center in Santa Barbara responsible for global technology development for Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in the U.S.A. through a major strategic alliance with UCSB. Cais graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia with a Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and conducted basic research at AT&T Bell Laboratories for 13 years. After that he moved to Mitsubishi Chemical for research and development in electrophotography, first at their toner facility in New Jersey then at the corporate R&D center in Yokohama, followed by the photoreceptor development center in Odawara, Japan. Cais returned after three years in Japan to start the first U.S. photoreceptor development center for Mitsubishi Chemical in Chesapeake, Virginia. He moved to MC Research & Innovation Center in 2002 as Vice President for research program management and was promoted to his present position in January, 2008.

Tim Cheng is Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and was the founding Director of the Computer Engineering program at UC Santa Barbara. He has been a visiting professor at Beijing University (China) and National TsingHua University (Taiwan). Prior to joining UCSB, Cheng worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ.

Cheng's current research interests include design validation, verification, testing and multimedia computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, has received numerous best paper awards, serves as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Design and Test of Computers and editor for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Formal Methods in System Design, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, and Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation.

Fred Chong is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computer Engineering Program at UC Santa Barbara. His current research focuses on novel computing technologies, architectural support for computer security and reliability, next-generation embedded systems, and the environmental impact of computing systems. His research is funded by NSF, AFOSR, and Nokia.

Chong received his BS (1990), MS (1992), and PhD (1996) degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and was a Chancellor's Fellow at UC Davis before joining UCSB in 2005.

Larry Coldren is the Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors at UC Santa Barbara. After 13 years at Bell Laboratories, he joined UC Santa Barbara in 1984, where he now holds appointments in Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering, and is Director of the Optoelectronics Technology Center. In 1990 he co-founded Optical Concepts, later acquired by Gore Photonics, to develop novel VCSEL technology, and in 1998 he co-founded Agility Communications, to develop widely-tunable integrated transmitters.

Coldren's research interests within electronics and photonics include semiconductor integrated optoelectronics, single-frequency, tunable, and surface-emitting lasers, optical waveguides and switches, optical fiber communication, materials growth, and planar processing techniques. Coldren is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, and IEE, the recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall Award, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Steven Denbaars, is the Mitsubishi Chemical Professor in Solid State Lighting and Displays, Executive Director of the Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center and a professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering Departments at UCSB. DenBaars was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard's Optoelectroncis Division involved in the growth and fabrication of visible LEDs.

Denbaars' specific research interests include growth of wide-bandgap semiconductors (GaN based), and their application to Blue LEDs and lasers and high power electronic devices. This research has lead to the first US university demonstration of a Blue GaN laser diode. He received a NSF Young Investigator award in 1994, and the IEEE Fellow award in 2005. He has authored or co-authored over 600 technical publications, 250 conference presentation, and 20 patents.

Francis (Frank) Doyle holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and in the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, and holds the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Control at UC Santa Barbara. Doyle is the Associate Director of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, a UC-Santa Barbara-led alliance with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), industry, and the Army, and is an affiliated faculty member with the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI).

His research is focused on two areas: (i) nonlinear model-based control of complex nonlinear and distributed processes, and (ii) the application of systems engineering tools to problems in biology. He was a principal investigator on a joint $600K grant awarded to UC Santa Barbara & Sansum Diabetes Research Institute from National Institutes of Health (NIH). He received the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award in 2005, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in 2002 , the ASEE Ray Fahien Award, 2000 and numerous other awards.

Leslie Edwards is the Director of Corporate Programs and lecturer for the Technology Management Program at UC Santa Barbara. Corporate Programs provides corporations with the highest level of access to our faculty, students and campus leadership. Becoming a Corporate Affiliate within the program facilitates heightened corporate visibility and a role in shaping the future of higher education in engineering and the sciences.

Leslie has an extensive background in relationship building between UC Santa Barbara and corporations, and has more than 10 years of corporate research, product development, and management experience. She has been the Division Manager for pharmacology and toxicology at Miravant, a biophysics company, worked at Amgen as a Research Associate in pharmacology, when there were fewer than 130 employees, and has worked as a consultant in regulatory toxicology.

Art Gossard holds a joint appointment as Professor of Materials and Computer Engineering at UCSB. His research involves the growth of artificially structured materials by molecular beam epitaxy. His special interests are molecular beam epitaxy, the growth of quantum wells and superlattices and their applications to high performance electrical and optical devices, and the physics of low-dimensional structures.

Gossard received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Harvard and UC Berkeley, respectively. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a recipient of the 1983 Oliver Buckley Condensed Matter Physics prize, the 2001 James McGroddy New Materials prize of the American Physical Society, and the 2005 John Bardeen award of the TMS.

João Hespanha is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara and Associate Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC). His research interests include hybrid and switched systems, the modeling and control of communication networks, distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems), the use of vision in feedback control, stochastic modeling in biology, and the control of haptic devices.

Hespanha is also an executive committee member for the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) and the principle investigator (PI) or co-PI of several federally funded projects including "Cooperative Control of UAVs for Tracking Moving Targets Through Information Gain" funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (through Toyon Research Corporation) and "Infinite-Dimensional Stochastic Hybrid Systems: A Unified Framework for Distributed Control with Limited and Disrupted Communication" funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Tobias Höllerer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Media Arts and Technology. He is co-director of the Four Eyes Laboratory, which focuses on four "I"s of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interface. His research interests span multiple fields of human-computer interaction and experimental systems, including augmented reality, virtual reality, and other 3D user interfaces; computer graphics and visualization; and wearable and ubiquitous computing systems.

Clas A. Jacobson (UTRC) has worked at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) since 1995. He is currently Chief Scientist, Controls for United Technologies Corporation (UTC). He was most recently Director of the Carrier Program Office at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) in East Hartford, Connecticut and prior to this role he was the Director of the Systems Department at UTRC. Dr. Jacobson has worked to develop capability at UTC broadly across the areas of controls, dynamical systems and systems engineering and has worked to identify and transition technology from university, government and UTRC teams to the UTC Business Units. Most recently Dr. Jacobson has been part of teams that developed systems engineering capability for both aerospace and commercial applications as well as the recent DARPA sponsored DyNARUM project that focuses on developing and transitioning dynamical systems capabilities of broad use across the UTC business units.

Dr. Jacobson received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering in 1986 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Boston from 1986-1995 and conducted research in control systems. He has published over fifty papers and holds two patents.

Kris Kvilekval received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara in 2004. He is currently a researcher with the Center for BioImage Informatics, an interdisciplinary research center developing new information processing technologies for extracting. Kvilekval’s research consists of applying and developing pattern recognition and data mining methods to bio-molecular images to fully automate the extraction of information from those images and the construction of statistically-sound models of the processes depicted in them.

Lawrence Larson (UC San Diego) is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the inaugural holder of the Communications Industry Chair, and Chair of the ECE Department at UC San Diego. From 2001-2006, he was Director of the Center for Wireless Communication at UC San Diego. He led the research effort in the early 1990s that developed the first microwave and mmW applications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies, including the first MEMS switches for microwave applications. He also led the technical effort at Hughes/IBM in the early 1990's for developing commercial applications of Si/SiGe HBT technology. His current research is focused on low-power circuit design and RF design techniques for wireless communications. Larson is an IEEE Fellow and co-recipient of the Hughes Electronics Lawrence Hyland Patent Award and the IBM Microelectronics Excellence Award.

Upamanyu Madhow, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, develops new architectures and algorithms for next-generation wireless communication and sensor networks.

Madhow is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Wirama, Inc., a radio frequency identification (RFID) company founded in 2006. He also was co-founder of Bytemobile, Inc., a wireless infrastructure company whose network infrastructure nodes are now deployed by major wireless carriers such as T-Mobile, Sprint, Orange, and Vodafone. Madhow is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. He is among the most cited authors in computer science, and is the Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple federally-funded grants.

B.S. Manjunath is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for BioImage Informatics, a $7 million center funded by the National Science Foundation, and Principal Investigator in the NSF-sponsored Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program on Interactive Digital Multimedia, at UC Santa Barbara.

Manjanuth's research interests include image/video analysis (including texture and shape analysis, segmentation, registration), multimedia databases and data mining (feature extraction, content based access, high dimensional indexing and similarity search), steganography (data hiding in images and video, and their detection), and signal/image processing for bio-informatics.

Arun Majumdar (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) is the Almy & Agnes Maynard Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and Head of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory. He is also Director of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute and a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and Council of Materials Science and Engineering at the Department of Energy.

Majumdar's research interests are in the broad area of mechanics and transport in nanostructured materials. Of particular current interest are phonon dynamics and transport in low-dimensional materials, materials and devices for thermoelectric energy conversion, transport and reactions in confined liquids (nanofluidics), chemomechanics of small and macromolecules with applications in chem/biosensing, and nanoscale imaging. Majumdar has received numerous awards including a NSF Young Investigator Award, ASME Melville Medal, and Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a fellow of ASME and AAAS, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Igor Mezic holds a joint appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, and is affiliated with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC) the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB), and the graduate program in Computational Science and Engineering. Mezic, together with United Technologies Research Center Technical Fellow Dr. Andrzej Banaszuk, is leading a prestigious 3-year, $12.5 million Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) contract awarded to consortium of universities and industrial partners researching how to manage uncertainty.

Mezic's research interests include applied mechanics, non-linear dynamics, fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. He has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the IEEE's George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. Additionally, Mezic is a founder of Aimdyn Inc. and Integrated Fluidics.

Sherylle Mills-Englander is the Director of the Office of Technology & Industry Alliances at UC Santa Barbara. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Santa Barbara in 1999, she served the Smithsonian Institution, negotiating copyright and trademark licensing agreements, and subsequently was a litigator specializing in entertainment law in Los Angeles.

Dan Morse is the Wilcox Professor of Biotechnology, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) at UC Santa Barbara. He was named to the 2006 "Scientific American 50," the magazine's annual list of the top 50 individuals, groups, and companies that have demonstrated outstanding technological leadership through pioneering research. Scientific American recognized him for his innovative research developing biologically inspired routes to nano-structured semiconductor thin films.

Morse has been honored as the Kelly Lecturer in Materials Science by the University of Cambridge and the 3M Lecturer in Materials and Chemistry by the University of British Columbia, and is the recipient of a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society. He also has been honored as a Distinguished Faculty Scholar by the Bio-Nanoelectronics Research Center in Tokyo, the Univerity of Paris, the National University of Singapore, St. Andrews University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He was elected a Regents' Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Mark Rodwell is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Nanofabrication Laboratory and its participation in the $25 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN) at UC Santa Barbara.

Rodwell's research focuses on high bandwidth InP bipolar transistors, compound semiconductor field-effect-transistors for VLSI applications, and mm-wave integrated circuit design in both silicon VLSI and III-V processes. He was the recipient of a 1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, his work on GaAs Schottky-diode ICs for subpicosecond / mm-wave instrumentation was awarded the 1997 IEEE Microwave Prize, and he was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2003. Rodwell worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories before coming to UC Santa Barbara.

Ken Rose is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. His research is in the areas of information theory, signal compression, source-channel coding, video/audio coding and processing, pattern recognition, and nonconvex optimization. He is particularly interested in applications of information and estimation, theoretic approaches to fundamental problems in signal processing, and the underlying relations between information theory and statistical physics.

Rose currently is an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and co-chaired the technical program committee of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, France. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee and of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, recipient of the 1990 William R. Bennett Prize-Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society, and of the 2004 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award.

Tim Sherwood is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and and Co-Director of the Computer Architecture Lab (ArchLab) at UC Santa Barbara. His research is in the development of novel high throughput hardware and software methods by which systems can be monitored and analyzed.

Sherwood has received three consecutive IEEE Micro Top Pick Awards for novel contributions significant to industry, and a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2005. His prior work on program phase analysis methods, a technique for reasoning about and predicting the behavior of programs over time—a critical step in reducing power consumption—has been cited over 350 times and is now used by Intel, HP, and other industry partners to guide the design of their largest microprocessors.

Ambuj Singh is a Professor of Computer Science and a faculty member of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Biomelecular Science and Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests are broadly in the areas of bioimage informatics, graph querying and mining, sensor networks, and searching high-dimensional data. Additionally, he is a member of the Bio-Inspired Network Science team for the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, an alliance between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Industry and the Army, led by the UC Santa Barbara.

Professor Singh has developed new techniques for querying and mining of multimedia databases and is currently applying them to the discovery of new biological information.

Nancy Stagliano is Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at CytomX, LLC. Stagliano's career spans all aspect of the biotech industry, from drug discovery research to global medical affairs to corporate communications. Stagliano received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, both from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Driven by a keen interest in biological systems, Stagliano then obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Miami in Miami, FL. Nancy's research focused on the mechanisms of brain injury during stroke. After three years as an independently-funded researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, she joined the Cambridge, MA biotechnology industry, where she worked for almost 8 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in the R&D organization. Since the summer of 2006, Stagliano has helped to build CytomX, LLC, a biotechnology start-up launched by UCSB faculty. Nancy manages day-to-day R&D operations and corporate affairs at CytomX.

Galen Stucky is the inaugural holder of the E. Khashoggi Industries, LLC Chair in Letters and Science. Stucky holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the Materials Department; he is also a member of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Stucky's current research focuses on the design and synthesis of new materials, with an emphasis on understanding the interface and nucleation chemistry that creates multifunctional 3-D systems by cooperative molecular assembly. His interface interests include in vivo studies of biomineralization, trans-membrane protein assembly and inorganic surface control of molecular processes.

Stucky is a world-renowned inorganic materials chemist most famous for his work with ordered mesoporous materials such as SBA-15. He is ranked in the top five most cited materials scientists in the world, according to Thomson Scientific's in-cites publication.

Matthew Tirrell is the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering, and holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Departments at UC Santa Barbara. His research is focused on the manipulation and measurement of interfacial properties of materials used in applications from coatings and adhesion to lubrication and bioengineering.

Dean Tirrell was recently awarded the William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Additionally, he has been a Sloan and a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and has received the Allan P. Colburn, Charles Stine and the Professional Progress Awards from AIChE, and delivered its Institute Lecture in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has won numerous other honors, including the Engineering Distinguished Lecturer award from the National Science Foundation in 2005; Le Prix Dédale de la Sociéte Française d’Adhesion in 2005; the W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering award from the California Institute of Technology in 2004, and many others.

Michael Witherell is the Vice Chancellor for Research and holds a University of California Presidential Chair in the Physics Department at UC Santa Barbara. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has received the U. S. Secretary of Energy's Gold Award (the highest honorary award of the Department of Energy), and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society.

Before coming to UC Santa Barbara, Witherell served as Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the largest particle physics laboratory in the country. In addition to Fermilab, he has done research in particle physics with accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics,. In 1990, his work at Fermilab studying charm quarks brought him the prestigious W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics, awarded annually by the American Physical Society.

Patrick Yue is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Associate Director for the undergraduate Computer Engineering Program at UC Santa Barbara. Yue has 15 years of combined experience in academia and the semiconductor industry. His technical expertise and research interests are in the areas of CMOS RF and high-speed IC design, device and passive modeling, and CAD methodology for high-frequency analog ICs.

Yue co-founded Atheros Communications (NSDQ: ATHR) in 1998, where he worked for four years and was a core member of the team that delivered the world's first single-chip RFIC based on standard digital CMOS processes for the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard. Atheros' products are widely regarded as the underpinning technology that enabled WiFi. After leaving Atheros, Yue joined another startup, Aeluros, where he worked on signal integrity and component modeling for 10-Gbps I/O interface circuits based on CMOS technology. During his graduate study, Yue held summer positions at Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard Lab, and Stanford University. He currently holds a dozen U.S. patents, most of which are employed in commercial products.