Professor Shih-Chieh Chang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. He worked at Synopsys, Inc. in mountain view, CA, from 1995 to 1996. Then, He joined the department of computer science and information engineering of National Chung Cheng University from 1996-2001. He is now a professor in the department of computer science in National Tsin-Hua University. Professor Shih-Chieh Chang is now an Associate Editor of ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic System and is currently the IEEE circuit and system chapter chair of Taipei section. He has published more than 70 technical papers and has served in the several Program committees such as ICCAD, DAC, ICCD, ISQED, and ASPDAC. His current research interests include low power and low energy optimization, variation aware optimization and tolerance, 3D design methodology. He received a Best Paper award at the 1994 Design Automation Conference.