Prof. Bernhard E. Boser received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1984 and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985 and 1988. From 1988 he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Adaptive Systems Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1992 he joined the faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley where he also serves as a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Dr. Boser's research is in the area of analog and mixed signal circuits, with special emphasis on analog-digital interface circuits and micromechanical sensors and actuators. He has served on the program committees of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers Conference, the VLSI Symposium, and the Sensor and Actuator Workshop. He was the Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and is currently the Chair of the Publications Committee of the Solid-State Circuits Society. Dr. Boser is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the Chief Scientist of SiTime, a fabless semiconductor company he co-founded in 2004. In 2005/06 he was a visiting professon at the Institute of Micro- and Nanosystems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is President of TCX, a consulting services company.  He is also CEO of ei2, a fabless product integration company.  Previously he was VP & GM of the worldwide Silicon Technology business unit at Cadence Design Systems and Tality.  During his 32 years of industry experience Rakesh has also been at Unisys and Motorola where he held various technical and management positions with increasing responsibility.  He has numerous publications and patents to his credit.  Dr. Kumar is on the AdCom of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society and serves as its Treasurer.  He has chaired and served on the Steering committee of the IEEE Custom IC Conference for fourteen years.  Rakesh received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1974 and 1971 respectively.  He received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1969. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   858.748.4624