Yuan Xie received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1997, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before joining UCSB in Fall 2014, he was with the Pennsylvania State University from 2003 to 2014, and with IBM Microelectronic Division's Worldwide Design Center from 2002 to 2003. Prof. Xie is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early F...