Ritochit Chakraborty received the B. E. (Hons.) degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in 2001. From 2001-2003, he was with the Set Top Box Design Group at STMicroelectronics. He received an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2006. His MS thesis focused on symbolic modeling techniques for analog design automation. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree at ACE lab, UW EE. He is a recipient of the UW EE departmental fellowship for 2006-2007, and the J. Watumull Scholarship for 2007-2008. His research interests include synthesis and optimization of circuit-electromagnetic systems, statistical analysis of RF circuits, RF design automation and performance of RFID systems. He has published 1 journal and 4 conference papers.

Ying Li received the B. Eng degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2003, and M. A. Sc degree from McMaster University, Canada, in 2006. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the ACE lab, UW EE. Her research interests include fast electromagnetic simulation, sensitivity analysis and optimization, with applications in via coupling, RFID and wireless power systems.

Mosin Mondal received the B. E. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, in 2001 and M.S. from Rice University, Houston, in 2006. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the ACE lab, UW EE. He is a recipient of the IEEE EMC Society President’s Memorial Award 2008, and a best paper award at EPEP 2007. His research interests include power and signal integrity, circuit-EM co-simulation and interconnect modeling. He has published more than 20 papers in journals and peer reviewed conferences. He worked with Cadence Design Systems (2001-2004), India, as a Member of Technical Staff and IBM, Research Triangle Park, as an Engineering Co-op.

Venkat Naidu received the Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington, in 2007. He is currently pursuing his MS/PhD at the ACE lab, UW EE. He is a recipient of the Graduate School Top Scholar Fellowship in 2007. His research interests include algorithms on large internet Graphs, with special attention to PageRank. He has completed a summer internship at Siemens Medical Solutions, Issaquah, WA in 2008.

Joe Peach received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2003, where he did his undergraduate research on dielectrophoretic devices with Prof. James Sturm. He began his graduate studies in the Microscale Life Sciences Center at the University of Washington and received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering working on microfluidic devices for on-chip PCR for quantifying nucleic acid sequences in single cells. He is co-advised by Prof. Jandhyala and Prof. Lin, and focuses on the development of dielectrophoretic field-flow fractionation (DEP-FFF) devices for the characterization of DNA. His DEP-FFF research is supported by grants from the Washington Research Foundation and the Technology Gap Innovation Fund, and after completing his Ph.D., he will explore commercialization of the DEP-FFF separation technology in development.

James Pingenot received his BSEE from the University of Kansas in 2003, and his MSEE from the University of Washington in 2007. He is currently pursuing is PhD from the University of Washington. From 2001-2003 he worked at the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory at the University of Kansas. He has interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and Tektronix, Inc. His research interests include remote sensing applications, computational physics, and computational geometry.

Arun Sathanur received the M.E. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2005 with emphasis on communication and signal processing. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the ACE lab,UW EE. He is a recipient of the Intel fellowship in 2008. He also received the ECTC travel award in 2009 for his paper on bandwidth optimization of microprocessor packages. His research interests include statistical analysis and optimization of circuit-EM systems and microelectronic packages. He has published 1 journal and 6 conference papers, and has completed a summer internship at Intel, Chandler, AZ in 2007.

Anirudha Siripuram (S’08) received his B.S. andM.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, respectively in 2002 and 2004. From 2002 to 2004, he was employed as a research assistant with the Center for Computational Electromagnetics Lab (CCEML) at the University of Illinois. From 2004 to 2006, he was an applied research engineer at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center at San Diego (SPAWARSYSCEN-SD). Since 2006, he has been pursuing his Ph.D. in electrical engineering with the Applied Computational Engineering (ACE) Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. His primary research interest involves incorporating decomposition methods to finite-element boundary-integral solutions of frequency domain EM systems. He is supported by the DoD’s SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research Transformation) fellowship.