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Jason C.S. Woo received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He joined the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department in 1987 and is currently a professor.

Prof. Woo served on the IEEE IEDM program committee from 1989-1990 and 1994-1996, and was the publicity vice-chairman in 1992 and the publicity chairman in 1993. He is the workshop chairman and has been a technical committee member of the VLSI Technology Symposium since 1992. Since 1993, he has been on the IEEE SOI conference committee and was the technical program chairman for the conference in 1999. He has also been appointed recently to serve as the chair of IEEE Electronic Device Society ad hoc committee on short courses. He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers in technical journals and refereed conference proceedings in these areas. Prof. Woo is also Director of the CMOS Research Laboratory.

Venkatagirish Nagavarapu got his B.Tech degree in undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2001. Since then he has been pursuing his PhD in Semiconductor Device Physics with Prof. Jason Woo as his advisor at the CMOS research laboratory in UCLA. He is currently working on novel asymmetric device structures and transistors for high performance to meet scaling challenges beyond the sub-65nm domain. His other research interests include low temperature device behavior and characterization, study and minimization of gate leakage in MOS devices and novel dopant annealing methods.

Ritesh Jhaveri comes from a small town called Bombay. He received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where his final year project involved working on pentacene and DNA based molecular electronics. During the summer of 2002, he interned at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland eating chocolates and working on MEMS devices, particularly micro gas ionizers. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where the force has been with him. The primary focus of his research is a novel Schottky CMOS device design for analog and mixed mode applications. His research interests also include novel tunneling transistors and asymmetric device structures.

Ahmet Tura is proud to call Izmir, Turkey his hometown. He received his B.S. with honors in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2003. He was a part of Caltech Asynchronous VLSI Research Group during his undergraduate years, designing several parts of the Lutonium, an asynchronous microcontroller. Later he joined the Caltech MEMS Research Group, characterizing parylene based devices. Then he followed his instincts to find the right path and joined the UCLA CMOS Lab to work towards his Ph.D. degree. He is currently working on several asymmetric MOSFET structures to improve subthreshold characteristics beyond the classical limit of 60mV/decade that would enable circuit operation at Vdd=0.5V or below.

Jing Zhu is from China, the country that will hold 2008 Olympics. She got her B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Peking University, China in 2005. After that she came to join CMOS Research Group in UCLA for Ph.D. What she is doing now for research is trying to use a new material which is called graphene as channel in MOSFET, taking advantage of its well-confined 2D structure and high mobility compared to normal Si MOSFET.

Ali Sajjadi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005, where he was with the Microtechnology Lab. In September 2005, he joined the UCLA CMOS research Lab, where he is now a Ph.D. student working on device and circuit optimization for microwave switch application.

Hsu-Yu Chang received B.S. and M.S. degrees in material science and engineering from National Tisng-Hua University, Taiwan, and National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. In September 2007, he joined the UCLA CMOS research Lab, where he is now a Ph.D. student working on low power CMOS device.

Yanjie Wang is from China. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Jilin University and Peking University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. At Peking University, he worked at Research center for wide gap semiconductor of PKU. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in CMOS Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles. His present research focuses on graphene as channel in MOSFET, which is expected to have much better performance than normal Si MOSFET.