Wayne Burleson has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1990. From 2012-2017, he was a Senior Fellow at AMD Research on a team that led to the most powerful and green supercomputers in the world.  He has also had previous sabbaticals at EPFL, LIRM Montpellier and Telecom Paris.   He has EE degrees from MIT and the University of Colorado. He has worked as a custom chip designer and consultant in the semiconductor industry with VLSI Technology, DEC, Compaq/HP, Intel, Rambus and AMD, as well as several start-ups. His research is in the general area of Security Engineering and VLSI, including medical devices, RFID, lightweight security, post-CMOS circuits and CAD for low-power, interconnects, clocking, reliability, thermal effects, process variation and noise mitigation.  Wayne has published over 200 refereed publications in these areas and is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in integrated circuit design and signal processing.