Tadahiro Kuroda received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999. In 1982, he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he designed CMOS SRAMs, gate arrays and standard cells. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research in the field of VLSI CAD. In 1990, he was back to Toshiba, and engaged in the research and development of BiCMOS ASICs, ECL gate arrays, high-speed CMOS LSIs for telecommunications, and low-power CMOS LSIs for multimedia and mobile applications. He invented a Variable Threshold-voltage CMOS (VTCMOS) technology to control VTH through substrate bias, and applied it to a DCT core processor and a gate-array in 1995. He also developed a Variable Supply-voltage scheme using an embedded DC-DC converter, and employed it to a microprocessor core and an MPEG-4 chip for the first time in the world in 1997. In 2000, he moved to Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, where he has been a professor since 2002. He was a Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan, and is a Visiting MacKay Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include ubiquitous electronics, sensor networks, wireless and wireline communications, and ultra-low-power CMOS circuits. He has published more than 200 technical publications, including 50 invited papers, and 18 books/chapters, and has filed more than 100 patents. Dr. Kuroda served as the General Chairman for the Symposium on VLSI Circuits, the Vice Chairman for ASP-DAC, sub-committee chairs for A-SSCC, ICCAD, and SSDM, and program committee members for the Symposium on VLSI Circuits, CICC, DAC, ASP-DAC, ISLPED, SSDM, ISQED, and other international conferences. He is a recipient of the 2005 IEEE System LSI Award, the 2005 P&I Patent of the Year Award, the 2006 LSI IP Design Award, the 2006 IP/SoC Best Design Paper Award, and the 2007 ASP-DAC Best Design Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer