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Hung Cao received his B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam in 2003. He then served as a lecturer at Vietnam Maritime University from 2003 to 2005. He earned an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2007 and 2012, respectively. After his Ph.D. study on biosensors and bioelectronics, Cao received training in bioengineering and medicine at University of Southern California (2012-2013) and University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2014). In 2014-2015, he worked for ETS, Montreal, QC, Canada as a research faculty. In fall 2015, Cao became an assistant professor of electrical/biomedical engineering at University of Washington (UW). Cao joined the UC Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in September 2018. His HERO lab focuses on the applications of micro- bio-sensors and bioelectronics for health monitoring in humans as well as biological studies in animal models. Cao is one of the pioneers in utilizing flexible microelectronics to study heart disease in zebrafish. He is a recipient of the UW’s RRF Award (2016), the NSF CAREER Award (2017) and one of the only two nominees under UW competing for the prestigious Moore’s Inventor Fellowship (2017)….

A. LEE SWINDLEHURST received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1985 and 1986, respectively, and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991. From 1986-1990, he was employed at ESL, Inc., of Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the design of algorithms and architectures for several radar and sonar signal processing systems. He was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University from 1990-2007, where he was a Full Professor and served as Department Chair from 2003-2006. During 1996-1997, he held a joint appointment as a visiting scholar at both Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, and at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2006-07, he was on leave working as Vice President of Research for ArrayComm LLC in San Jose, California. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California Irvine (UCI), a former Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI, and a former Hans Fischer Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University of Munich….

Aparna is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her research is in the area of high-performance computing and she leads the HPC Forge research lab. She received my Ph.D in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013 in the HPC Garage. Prior to joining UCI, she was a research scientist at MIT CSAIL, where she worked on the X-Stack (exascale software stack) project….