Dr. William C.Y. Lee, Chairman of LinkAir Communications, Inc.



Lee is Chairman of LinkAir Communications in Santa Clara, California. From 1985-2000 he was Vice President and Chief Scientist of Global Technology for Vodafone AirTouch in Walnut Creek; from 1979-1985 he was manager of the Advanced Development Department at ITT Defense Communications Division; and from 1964 to 1979, he was with Bell Laboratories where he was a pioneer in mobile radio communications studies. Lee is a distinguished Alumnus of Ohio State University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering.

Lee has served as a member of the California Council on Science and Technology since 1996-2002. He was recognized with the Bell Labs Dedicated Service Award, the ITTDCD Technical Contribution Award and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) VTS Avant Garde Award. In 1998, he was awarded the CDMA Industry Achievement award for his technical achievements; the IEEE Award of Third Millennium Medal for his outstanding achievement and contributions; and the Stuart Meyer Memorial Award from IEEE Vehicle Technology Society. In 2001, he received the Telecommunication Achievement award from the Chinese Historical Society of America.

Dr. Lee has written more than 200 technical papers, and has seven books to his credit. He has been granted 25 patents and conducted courses at George Washington University from 1982-2000. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Radio Club of America; a member of the National Council on Competitiveness; and a former member of the FCC Advisory Council. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology.

Victor Tsao, VP and General Manager Linksys, division of Cisco Systems, Inc.



Victor Tsao is the Vice President and General Manager of Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc. Prior he was the President and CEO of the Linksys Group, Inc., in Irvine, California which was acquired by Cisco in June of 2003. Linksys is a leader in the development of broadband, wireless and networking hardware solutions for the home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), and Small Business markets.

Prior to joining Linksys, Tsao served as the Director of MIS Strategic Systems Development, for Taco Bell Corp from 1985 to 1991. Tsao played a key role in the implementation of in-restaurant automation and networking daily operation results back to the headquarters. He was there at the time when PepsiCo transition Taco Bell into a mainstream Fast Food marketer. Tsao also served as Supervisor of technical Services for Santa Fe International Corp., a Senior Systems Programmer for TRW Inc, Senior software Engineer for Kraft, Inc. and a Database Administrator for Montgomery Ward & Co. Tsao has dedicated more than 30 years in the computer and IT industry.

Victor has an MBA, MS and BS in computer science from Pepperdine University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Tamkang University, respectively.

Dr. Teresa H. Meng, Chief Technology Officer of Atheros Communications, Inc.



Teresa H. Meng received her Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. She joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University in 1988, and was appointed the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor in 2003. Awards and honors for her research work at Stanford include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award, a best paper award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the Eli Jury Award from U.C. Berkeley.

In 1998, Dr. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which provides the core technology for ubiquitous, high-performance wireless communications. Dr. Meng was named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs in 2001 by Red Herring, Innovator of the Year in 2002 by MIT Sloan School eBA, and the CIO 20/20 Vision Award in 2002.

Dr. Meng's current research activities include circuit optimization, wireless communication, and neural signal processing. areas of signal processing and wireless communications. She is the author of one book, numerous book chapters, and over 200 technical articles in journals and conferences. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Ming-Dou Ker, Professor of Electrical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University



Ming-Dou Ker received his B.S. from the Department of Electronics Engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1986, 1988, and 1993, respectively.

In 1994, he joined the VLSI Design Department of Computer & Communication Research Laboratories (CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, as a Circuit Design Engineer, where he became a Department Manager in 1998. Since 2000, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Dr. Ker has published over 180 technical papers in journals and conferences in the field of reliability and quality design for CMOS integrated circuits. Moreover, he has held over 140 patents on the reliability and quality design for integrated circuits, including 55 U.S. patents and 73 Taiwan patents. His inventions on ESD protection design and latchup prevention method has been widely used in the modern IC products, including RFIC. He was invited to teach or help ESD protection design and latchup prevention by many IC design houses and semiconductor companies in the Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as well as in the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, USA. He got many research awards from ITRI, Dragon Thesis Award (by Acer Foundation), National Science Council, and National Chiao-Tung University.

Dr. Ker participated as a member of Technical Program Committee and as the Session Chair in many international conferences (ISCAS, SoC, EOS/ESD, IRPS, isQED, IPFA, ...). He has also founded the Taiwan ESD Association, and was elected as the first President of Taiwan ESD Association in 2001. His research interest includes reliability and quality design for nanoelectronics and gigascale systems, high-speed and mixed-voltage I/O interface circuits, wireless communication circuits, special sensor circuits, and semiconductors.

Dr. Yi-Jen Chan, Professor of Electrical Engineering at National Central University



Yi-Jen Chan received the B.S.E.E degree from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, the M.S.E.E degree from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1982,1984, and 1992 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, R.O.C., as an Associated Professor in 1992, and he became a Professor in 1996. He was appointed as the Department Chair from 1998 to 2001. Since 2002 he is in charge of the University IP and Technology Transfer Affairs.

He has been involved in several national research programs, including the Promoting Academic Excellence Program, the National Telecommunication Program, and the National Innovative Communication Education Program. He also held several consultant positions in the ITRI and the Companies in the Science Park. His current research interests include submicron device technology, microwave devices and integrated circuits, and optoelectronic integrated circuits.

Dr. Thomas H. Lee, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University



Thomas H. Lee received his degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his doctoral research resulted in the first FM radio built in CMOS. He has built numerous PLLs at companies such as Analog Devices and Rambus, and has also contributed to the PLL circuitry of several microprocessors, notably the K6, K7, and K8 at Advanced Micro Devices, as well as the StrongARM and Alpha CPUs at Digital Equipment Corporation.

In 1994, he joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Stanford University, where his research focuses on gigahertz communication circuits, both wireline and wireless. He is the author of "The Design of CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits," and won a Packard Foundation Fellowship in 1997. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of two separate IEEE societies, holds thirty U.S. patents, and has won several Best Paper Awards at international conferences. In 1998, he co-founded Matrix Semiconductor.

Dr. Jeff Tsai, Program Manager of Mixed Signal and RF at TSMC North America



Dr. Jeff Tsai holds a Ph.D in EE from University of Texas at Austin, M. S. in EE from National Taiwan University and B. S. from National Chiao Tung University. He has 36 patents granted in U. S. and has authored or coauthored over 37 journal papers. From 1998 to 2001, he was presented the distinguished patent committee member and inventor at TSMC.

Currently Dr. Jeff Tsai re-jointed TSMC North America as Program Manager, Mixed Signal and RF from OptoIC Technology where he served as Director of System and Circuit, responsible for high-speed ICs and electrical systems for cutting-edge optical data communication and telecommunication. From 1999 to 2001, Jeff was the RFCMOS Manager in R&D at TSMC Taiwan during which he led a team to develop the 0.25 to 0.13um MS/RF CMOS technology. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Technical Manager at TSMC on the 0.35 to 0.18um logic team.