Dr. Suhir is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (ret), Basic Research, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. Currently he is on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. He is also Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and Guest Professor, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics, Academy of Sciences, PR of China. Dr. Suhir is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He has formed, and is chairing, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Technical Committee on portable devices. Dr. Suhir is a co-founder of the ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging and served as its Technical Editor (Editor-in-Chief) for eight years (1993-2001). He holds 21 US patents and has authored about 300 technical publications (papers, book chapters, books), including monographs “Structural Analysis in Microelectronics and Fiber Optics”, Van-Nostrand, 1991, “Applied Probability for Engineers and Scientists”, McGraw-Hill, 1997, and 2007 Springer two-volume publication E. Suhir, CP Wong, YC Lee, eds. “Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials and Structures: Physics, Mechanics, Design, Packaging, Reliability”. Dr. Suhir is editor of the Springer book series on physics, mechanics and packaging of microelectronic and photonic systems. Dr. Suhir is Member of the Board of Governors and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CPMT (Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology) Society and is Associate Editor of the IEEE CPMT Transactions on Advanced Packaging. He organized many successful conferences and symposia and presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide. Dr. Suhir received many professional awards, including: 2009 Fulbright Fellowship Award in Information and Telecommunication Technologies; 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering through a series of papers in Mechanical, Microelectronic, and Optoelectronic Engineering, which established a new discipline known as the Structural Analysis of Microelectronic and Photonic Systems; 2001 IMAPS John A. Wagnon Technical Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the technical knowledge of the microelectronics, optoelectronics, and packaging industry; 2000 IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award for outstanding, sustained and continuing contributions to the technologies in fields encompassed by the CPMT Society; 2000 SPE International Engineering/Technology (Fred O. Conley) Award for outstanding pioneering and continuing contributions to plastics engineering; 1999 ASME and Pi-Tau-Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to mechanical engineering, and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award for developing extremely accurate and robust engineering mechanics methods for predicting the reliability, performance, and mechanical behavior of complex structures used in manufacturing Lucent Technologies products.