Gary H. Bernstein received the BSEE from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, with honors in 1979 and the MSEE from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana in 1981. During the summers of 1979 and '80, he was a graduate assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in the summer of 1983 interned at the Motorola Semiconductor Research and Development Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 1987, after which he spent a year there as a postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1988 as an assistant professor, and was the founding Director of the Notre Dame Nanoelectronics Facility from 1989 to 1998. Dr. Bernstein received an NSF White House Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, was promoted to rank of Professor in 1998, and served as the Associate Chairman of his Department from 1999 to 2006. Dr. Bernstein has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications in the areas of electron beam lithography, quantum electronics, high-speed integrated circuits, electromigration, MEMS, nanomagnetics and electronics packaging. Bernstein has acted as research advisor for 13 MSEE degrees and 12 Ph.D.�s. Bernstein was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006, and with his former student