Shanthi Pavan is a Professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, India, and has been the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society.  He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Richard Schreier was a Division Fellow in Analog Devices Inc. and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, when he retired in 2016. From 1991-1997 he was a Professor at Oregon State University.He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2015. Gabor Temes is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of California, and Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, USA.  He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.