Dr. David Blaauw's research and teaching interests include low power design, reliability analysis, and electronic design automation. He has more than 250 refereed conference and journal publications, including 8 best paper awards or nominations, including two from the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference. He was the Technical Program Chair and General Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference from 2001 through 2002 and a member of its Executive Committee from 2000 through 2003.