David Z. Pan received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 2000. He was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2000 to 2003. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin. He has published over 180 refereed journal and conference papers. He has served as an Associate Editor of several IEEE transactions (TCAD, TVLSI, TCAS-I, TCAS-II), IEEE CAS Society Newsletter, Science China Information Sciences, Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He has served as Chair of the IEEE CANDE Technical Committee and the ACM/SIGDA Physical Design Technical Committee, Program/General Chair of ISPD, Subcommittee Chair for DAC, ICCAD, ASPDAC, ISLPED, ICCD, ISCAS, and so on. He is a working group member of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS). He serves in the 2014 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Executive Committee. He has received a number of awards, including the SRC 2013 Technical Excellence Award for his significant contributions in "Nanometer IC Design for Manufacturability", 10 Best Paper Awards (ICCAD 2013, ASPDAC 2012, ISPD 2011, IBM Research 2010 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in CS/EE/Math, ASPDAC 2010, DATE 2009, ICICDT 2009, SRC Techcon in 1998, 2007 and 2012), DAC Top 10 Author in Fifth Decade, DAC Prolific Author Award, Communications of the ACM Research Highlights (to appear), ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award (2005), NSF CAREER Award (2007), SRC Inventor Recognition Award three times, IBM Faculty Award four times, UCLA Engineering Distinguished Young Alumnus Award (2009), ISPD Routing Contest Awards (2007), eASIC Placement Contest Grand Prize (2009), ICCAD’12 CAD Contest Award, among others.