Cyrus Shafai received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, in 1990 and 1993, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 1997. He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba and is currently serving as the Director of the University of Manitoba Nano-Systems Fabrication Laboratory. His research includes MEMS technologies, process simulation, micro-actuators and sensors, electric and magnetic field sensors, RF MEMS and engineered surfaces, MEMS optics and adaptive optics, evolutionary and optimization algorithms for MEMS design, and smart agricultural sensors.