Vasilis F. Pavlidis received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 2003 and 2008, respectively.He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. From 2008 to 2012, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. He was with INTRACOM S.A., Athens, Greece, from 2000 to 2002. He has also been a visiting researcher at Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA, with the Primetime group in 2007. His current research interests include interconnect modeling and analysis, 3-D and 2.5-D integration, and other issues related to VLSI design. He has published several conference and journal papers in these areas. He was the leading designer of the Rochester cube and co-creator of the Manchester Thermal Analyzer.Dr. Pavlidis is on the editorial board of the Microelectronics Journal and Integration, the VLSI Journal. He also serves on the Technical Program Committees of several IEEE conferences. He is a member of the VLSI Systems & Applications Technical Committee of the Circuits and Systems Society and a member of the IEEE. He is also involved in public policy issues as a member of the ICT working group of the IEEE European Public Policy Initiative.Ioannis Savidis received the B.S.E. degree in electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 2005. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, in 2007 and 2013, respectively.He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he directs the Integrated Circuits and Electronics (ICE) Design and Analysis Laboratory. He has held visiting research positions with the 3-D Integration group at Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, TX, USA in 2007, and the System on Package and 3-D Integration group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. His current research and teaching interests include analysis, modeling, and design methodologies for high performance digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, power management for SoC and microprocessor circuits (including on-chip dc-dc converters), emerging integrated circuit technologies, IC design for trust (hardware security), and interconnect related issues in 2-D and 3-D ICs. He has authored or co-authored over 40 technical papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and holds 4 pending patents. Dr. Savidis is a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, the Microelectronics Journal, and the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers. He serves on the Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees of many international conferences including the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration, the ACM/IEEE System Level Interconnect Prediction Workshop, and the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust.