Ran-Hong Yan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He then joined the Silicon Research Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, working on deep-submicron (0.1-?m) MOS transistors, advanced silicon processing technologies, and low-power electronics. In 1995, Ran became the Department Head for MicroSystems Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, responsible for BiCMOS/SiGe technologies, low-power DSP, signal processing for wireless, and IF-sampling techniques. In 1997, he took a 4-year international assignment as the Director for Global Wireless Systems Research, and High-Speed Circuits & Systems Research Departments, based in Swindon, UK with distributed groups also in Nuremberg, Germany, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sydney, Australia, Murray Hill, NJ and Holmdel, NJ. His responsibilities were in the areas of RFIC, ASIC, DSP, layer one algorithms, protocol stack, and network architecture for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and IEEE802.11a&b systems and their applications. He is currently Vice President for Wireless Research Laboratory at Bell Labs. Ran is very active in IEEE activities, for example he was a guest editor for Special Issue on Low-Power Electronics, IEEE Proceedings, served as the program chair for the 2001 VLSI-TSA conference in Taiwan, and was involved in many other technical conferences.