Eric Michielssen received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in 1987, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1992. He currently is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC. His research interests include all aspects of theoretical and applied computational electromagnetics with an emphasis on the development of fast frequency and time domain integral-equation-based techniques for analyzing electromagnetic phenomena and robust optimizers for electromagnetic/optical devices. He is the (co-)author of 120 journal articles and book chapters and 180 conference papers and abstracts. Eric Michielssen was the recipient of a 1994 International Union of Radio Scientists (URSI) Young Scientist Fellowship, a 1995 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the 1998 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Valued Service Award. In addition, he was named 1999 URSI United States National Committee Henry G. Booker Fellow and selected as the recipient of the 1999 URSI Koga Gold Medal. Recently, he was awarded the UIUC's 2001 Xerox Award for Faculty Research, and appointed Beckman Fellow in its Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC Scholar, and Sony Faculty Fellow. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and a Fellow of the IEEE.