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Speakers       Clark T.-C. Nguyen  is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and BSAC Co-Director. He was previously Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a DARPA Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). He managed many DARPA programs including Micro Power Generation (MPG), Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC), MEMS Exchange (MX), Harsh Environment Robust Micromechanical Technology (HERMiT), Micro Gas Analyzers (MGA), Radio Isotope Micropower Sources (RIMS), RF MEMS Improvement (RFMIP), Navigation-Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscope (NGIMG) and Micro Cryogenic Coolers (MCC). Prof. Nguyen received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His technical interests focus on microelectromechanical systems and include integrated vibrating micromechanical signal processors and sensors, merged circuit/micromechanical technologies, RF communication architectures and integrated circuit design and technology. Prof. Nguyen and his students have garnered numerous Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences including the 1998 and 2003 IEEE International Electron Devices Meetings, the 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, the 2004 DARPA Tech Conference, and the 2004 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference. In 2001, Prof. Nguyen founded Discera, Inc., a company aimed at commercializing communication products based upon MEMS technology, with an initial focus on the vibrating micromechanical resonators pioneered by his research in prior years. He served as Vice President and Acting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Discera from 2001 to mid-2002. See also:  http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ctnguyen/       Kristofer S.J. Pister  received a B.A. degree in applied physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and 1992. From 1992 to 1997 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He created the term "Smart Dust" and pioneered the development of ubiquitous networks of communication sensors, a concept that has since become a vital sector of technology R&D. During 2003 and 2004 he was on industrial leave as CEO and then CTO of Dust Networks, a company that he co-founded to commercialize low-power wireless sensor networks. In addition to wireless sensor networks, his research interests include MEMS-based microrobotics and low-power circuit design. See also:  http://wsn.eecs.berkeley.edu/index.php       Hirotaka Sato  received his B.S.(2000), M.S. (2002), and Ph.D. (2005) in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) for his work on nano/micro fabrication for MEMS using electrochemical processes including electrodeposition, electroless deposition, electrochemical etching. Dr. Sato was a research associate in Waseda University from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Sato's current research interests include micro bio-interface as well. He joined Professor Michel M. Maharbiz group to work on Hybrid Insect MEMS project in 2007 and has been developing cyborg beetle which demonstrated the world's first remote radio control of insect flight. The research was elected by MIT Tech Review and Time Magazine as one of the top researches in 2009. The article recently published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience is the most viewed to date since the journal was established. The Most Viewed Article in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience http://frontiersin.org/integrativeneuroscience/paper/10.3389/neuro.07/024.2009/ The 50 Best Inventions of 2009, TIME http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933968,00.html The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009 (TR10), MIT Technology Review http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22111/ See also:  http://www.ntu.edu.sg