Gi-Joon Nam holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and he is currently a principal research scientist and the manager of the Physical Design Group in IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industry and published over 70 technical publications and issued patents. He was the general chair of the 2009 ISPD (International Symposium on Physical Design) conference and the technical program committee chair of ASP-DAC 2023, has been serving as a technical program committee member for most premier conferences in this field such as DAC (Design Automation Conference) and ICCAD (International Conference on Computer-Aided Design), DATE (Design, Automation, and Test in Europe) and ASP-DAC (Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference) for many years. He was also an associate editor for IEEE TCAD (Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems). To outreach the community further, Gi-Joon has been serving as an executive committee member of ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation) and IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation) to manage/plan conference and community activities. He is currently the president of IEEE CEDA. Dr. Nam is the recipient of several IBM outstanding/technical research awards and IBM corporate achievement awards.