Elias Kougianos received a BSEE from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1985 and an MSEE in 1987, an MS in Physics in 1988, and a Ph.D. in EE in 1997, all from Louisiana State University. From 1988 through to 1998, he was with Texas Instruments, Inc., in Houston and Dallas, TX. In 1998, he joined Avant! Corp. (now Synopsys) in Phoenix, AZ, as a Senior Applications engineer, and in 2000, he joined Cadence Design Systems, Inc., in Dallas, TX, as a Senior Architect in Analog/Mixed-Signal Custom IC design. He has been at UNT since 2004. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX. His research interests are in the area of Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF IC design and simulation and in the development of VLSI architectures for multimedia applications. He is an author of over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications.