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Prof. **Xinpeng Xing** received his Bachelor and Master degrees both in Electronics Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Tsinghua University respectively. In October 2013, He is granted with PhD degree in engineering in KU Leuven, his doctor thesis is about design of high-bandwidth low-power Delta-Sigma Modulators. Now he is an assistant professor at Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, and his research interest is analog, mixed-mode, RF integrated circuits design. **Georges G.E. Gielen** Has been a Full Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2000 and, since August 2012, has served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also the Chair of the Leuven ICT research center, and the PI coordinator of the Leuven CHIPS Center of Excellence. His research interests are in the design of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, and especially in analog and mixed-signal CAD tools and design automation (modeling, simulation and symbolic analysis, analog synthesis, analog layout generation, analog and mixed-signal testing). He is coordinator or partner of several (industrial) research projects in this areas. He has authored or coauthored 7 books and more than 450 papers in edited books, international journals and conference proceedings. He is regularly a member of the Program Committees of international conferences, having served as General Chair of the DATE conference in 2006 and of the ICCAD conference in 2007. He serves regularly as member of editorial boards of international journals (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Springer International Journal on Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Elsevier Integration). He received the 1995 Best Paper Award in the John Wiley international journal on Circuit Theory and Applications, and was the 1997 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academ y on Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of Engineering. He received the 2000 Alcatel Award from the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research for his innovative research in telecommunications, and won the DATE 2004 conference Best Paper Award. He served as appointed member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, and as Chairman of the IEEE Benelux CAS Chapter. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005, and as Chair of the IEEE Benelux Section in 2009-2011. He is the Chair of EDAA. He was elected DATE Fellow in 2007, and received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Contribution Award and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Meritorious Service Award in 2007. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.