Nurzhan Zhuldassov received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan in 2018, and his M.S. in 2019 and Ph.D. in 2024, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. In 2022 he was an intern at Google, Sunnyvale, California, and in 2023 he was an intern at Apple, Cupertino, California. His research interests encompass on-chip and package level power delivery networks, power integrity, cryogenic operation of MOSFETs, and optimization of cryogenic electronic circuits. Eby G. Friedman (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Lafayette College, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Irvine. He was with Hughes Aircraft Company, from 1979 to 1991, rising to Manager of the Signal Processing Design and Test Department, where he was responsible for the design and test of high performance digital and analog ICs. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, since 1991, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the High Performance VLSI/IC Design and Analysis Laboratory. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He has authored more than 600 articles and book chapters, holds 29 patents, and has authored or edited 21 books in the fields of high speed and low power CMOS design techniques, 3-D design methodologies, high speed interconnect, superconductive circuits, and the theory and application of synchronous clock and power distribution networks. His current research and teaching interests include high performance synchronous digital and mixed-signal circuit design and analysis with application to high speed portable processors, low power wireless communications, and data centers. Dr. Friedman is a Senior Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the NAI, a National Sun Yat-sen University Honorary Chair Professor, and an Inaugural Member of the UC Irvine Engineering Hall of Fame. He was a recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Mac Van Valkenburg Award, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, the University of Rochester Graduate Teaching Award and Lifetime Achievement Award, and the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief and Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, the Editor-in-Chief of the Microelectronics Journal, a Regional Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, an editorial board member for numerous journals, and a program and technical chair for several IEEE conferences.
