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Young-Hee Kim was born in Yang-Pyung, Korea, on January 24, 1972, as a son of Yong-Kae Kim and Jong-Rae Lee. He graduated from Sajic High School, Pusan, Korea, and joined Korean Air Force serving as military policeman. In 1995, he got admission in Kyung-Hee University, Suwon, Korea, and in 1999 he received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering. In August 1999, he started his Masters and Ph.D. study in the department of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. During the graduate work, he contributed to a number of technical publications (34 coauthored papers, in 14 of which he was the first author). In April 2004, he joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member and has been carrying out exploratory devices integration.Jack C. Lee received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1980 and 1981, respectively; and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering fromUniversity of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He is a Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and holds the Cullen Trust For Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. From 1981 to 1984, he was a Member of Technical Staff at the TRW Microelectronics Center, CA, in the High-Speed Bipolar Device Program. He has worked on bipolar circuit design, fabrication, and testing. In 1988, he joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include thin dielectric breakdown and reliability, high-k gate dielectrics and gate electrode, high-k thin films for semiconductor memory applications, electronic materials, and semiconductor device fabrication processes, characterization, and modeling. He has published over 300 journal publications and conference proceedings. He has received several patents. Dr. Lee has been awarded two Best Paper Awards and numerous Teaching/Research Awards. Dr. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE.
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