Professor Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang received his B.S. degree from Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTUEE), in 1992. He obtained his PhD from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2000. Before joining NTUEE as an assistant professor in 2004, he was with Cadence Design Systems, where he served as a senior R&D manager and was in charge of the core engine development of their functional verification tools.