Edmond Cretu has received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (specialization microsystems) from the Delft Technical University, The Netherlands, in 2003. He has held a researcher position in the Romanian Academy from 1990 to 1994. He was a senior designer and later senior project manager at Melexis, Belgium, from 2000 to 2005. Since 2006, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia, where he is currently a full Professor. His research areas are related to MEMS/NEMS, signal processing and control, microsystems, and sensor networks.