Prof. Joseph B. Bernstein was a Fulbright Senior Researcher/Lecturer at Tel Aviv University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Physical Electronics. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include the thermal, mechanical, and electrical interactions of failure mechanisms of ultra-thin gate dielectrics, non-volatile memory, advanced metallization, and power devices. He is a senior member of IEEE.