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Theodore Van Duzer
(Chairman of Advisory Board)
Dr. Theodore Van Duzer is a Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University
of California, Berkeley. Dr.Van Duzer also co-founded Conductus(listed
on NYSE), a leading supplier of high speed RF filters for
mobile base stations, and served on its advisory board since
1989. He is also a member of US Academy of Engineering and
IEEE Life Fellow. Dr. Van Duzer published more than 200 technical
papers on integrated circuits design technology for low-power
high-speed signal processing. His latest research interest
is in data-driven vector-processing design for high throughput
signal process applications with single flux quantum technology.
He holds many patents and received numerious awards throughout
his teaching and research career at Berkeley.
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Joseph A. Grundfest
JOSEPH A. GRUNDFEST is the William A. Franke Professor of
Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He joined Stanford's
faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years
as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission. While at the SEC, Professor Grundfest dealt extensively
with matters related to enforcement of federal securities
laws, regulation of novel financial instruments and transactions,
takeovers, corporate governance, market volatility, and internationalization
of U.S. capital markets. Professor Grundfest's scholarship
in the areas of corporate law, securities regulation, and
litigation has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford
Law Reviews.
California Lawyer named Professor Grundfest as among
the top 10 lawyers in California in 1999, where he was ranked
second on the list. He is also listed as among the 100 most
influential attorneys in the United States by the National
Law Journal. Professor Grundfest is also founder and
director of Directors' College at Stanford Law School, and
is principal investigator for Stanford Law School's Securities
Litigation Clearinghouse.
Prior to joining the SEC, Professor Grundfest served as
counsel and senior economist for legal and regulatory matters
at the President's Council of Economic Advisors. An attorney
and economist, Professor Grundfest has also practiced law
with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and has served as an
economist with the Brookings Institution and the Rand Corporation.
Professor Grundfest holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics
from Yale University (1973) and completed the M.Sc. program
in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at the London
School of Economics (1972). His Law degree is from Stanford
(1978) where he also completed all requirements for a Doctorate
in Economics but for the dissertation (1978).
Professor Grundfest directs the Roberts Program in Law,
Business and Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School.
He has served on the New York Stock Exchange's Legal Advisory
Board, on the NASDAQ Legal Advisory Committee, on a rules
committee of the United States District Court for the Northern
District of California, and has been elected to membership
of the American Law Institute. Professor Grundfest has received
the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching
as well as the Associated Students of Stanford University
award as the best professor at the Stanford Law, Business,
and Medical Schools. Professor Grundfest has been selected
as a National Fellow by the Hoover Institution, has been
awarded a John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship, and is an Adjunct
Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. Professor
Grundfest is admitted to practice in California and in the
District of Columbia. Professor Grundfest is also a director
of the Oracle Corporation and a founder and director of
Financial Engines, Inc.
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Chenming Hu
Dr. Chenming Hu is member of US Academy and TSMC Distinguished
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
at UC Berkeley. He served as the Chief Technology Officer
of TSMC. Dr. Hu was the founding Chairman of Celestry Design
Technologies, an IC design software company that was acquired
by Cadence Design Systems in 2003. Dr. Hu was the board chairman
of the East San Francisco Bay Chinese School and is a frequent
advisor to industry and educational institutions.
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Richard
Newton
Richard Newton is the Dean of the College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University
of California, Berkeley. Dean Newton is also a partner of
Mayfield Ventures and serves as an advisor to Microsoft.
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Jan Rabaey
Dr. Jan Rabaey is the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor
in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently
the Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC),
as well as the Director of the Gigascale Silicon Research
Center (GSRC). He also serves as an IEEE Fellow. Dr. Rabaey
is a world leading technologist on Reconfigurable Computing
technology for low-power high-performance signal processing
for wireless communication applications.
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William Lee
William Lee serves as the Chairman of LinkAir Communications,
the pioneer of LAS-CDMA, a new technology for wireless communications
systems that significantly increases network capacity, improves
QoS and expands network coverage. He previously served as
the Vice President and Chief Scientist for Vodafone Airtouch.
He also held research positions at ITT's Defense Communications
Division and at Bell Labs, where he was one of a team of pioneers
developing advanced wireless technology (AMPS).
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Robert
Brodersen
Robert Brodersen is a Professor at the Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences Department of the University of California,
Berkeley. He also serves as a member of US Academy of Engineering.
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Chang-Lin Tien (Former
Chairman of Advisory Board)
Dr. Chang-Lin Tien was the Professor Emeritus of the University
of California, and NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering
at its Berkeley campus. As a faculty member at the University
for over 40 years, he served for seven years as UC Berkeley's
seventh Chancellor-the first Asian American to head a major
research university in the United States. Concurrent with
his Chancellorship, he was also the A. Martin Berlin Chair
Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Tien joined the mechanical
engineering faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and rising through
the ranks, he became a full professor, later chairman of the
department, and for two years (1983-85) was Berkeley's Vice
Chancellor--Research. He left Berkeley in 1988 and served
for two years as Executive Vice Chancellor and UCI Distinguished
Professor at U.C. Irvine before returning to Berkeley. Dr.
Tien was born in Wuhan, China in 1935, and was educated in
Shanghai and Taiwan. Completing his undergraduate education
at the National Taiwan University, he came to the U.S. in
1956, earned a master's degree at the University of Louisville
in 1957, and then earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree at Princeton
University in 1959. Dr. Tien passed away in 2002.
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