Abbas El Gamal

Abbas El Gamal received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1972, the M.S. in Statistics and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1977 and 1978, respectively. From 1978 to 1980 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC . He has been on the faculty of of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford since 1981. He was on leave from Stanford from 1984 to 1988 first as Director of LSI Logic Research Lab, then as cofounder and Chief Scientist of Actel corporation. In 1990 he cofounded Silicon Architects, which is currently part of Synopsys. His research has spanned several areas including digital imaging, network information theory, and integrated circuit design. He has authored or coauthored 150 papers and 25 patents in these areas. He has served on the board of directors and advisory boards of several IC and CAD companies, including Numerical Technologies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ISSCC Technical Program Committee.

Professor K.J. Chang

Since 2003, Dr. Chang has been a member of the faculty of National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Taiwan, where he leads research efforts addressing design for manufacturability (DFM) in nanometer technology nodes.

Dr. Chang was the cofounder of Frequency Technology, Inc. (now part of Sequence Design, Inc.) where he led research and silicon validation for the company's CAD software. Prior to cofounding Frequency, he developed interconnect modeling software at Hewlett-Packard Company.

In addition to his University research, Dr. Chang currently works as consultant to TSMC, UMC, and Clear Shape Technologies on advanced DFM research subjects. In the past three years, he has been invited by TSMC, UMC, Faraday, Fabless Semiconductor Association, ITRI-Taiwan, MOE-Taiwan, IEEE-USA, and National Taiwan University respectively, to give tutorial speeches on interconnect modeling and DFM.

Dr. Keh-Jeng Chang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles.. Dr. Chang has published 30 IEEE journal and conference papers on deep submicron interconnect modeling and has been awarded 10 US patents on deep submicron interconnect modeling.