Michael Shur received MSEE Degree (with honors) from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute, and PhD (“kandidad”) and Dr. Sc. Degrees from A. F. Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. He has held research and faculty positions at Cornell, Oakland University, University of Minnesota, and University of Virginia. He is now Patricia W. and C.Sheldon Roberts Professor, Director of Broadband Center, Director of the NSF “Connection One” Industry/University Cooperative Research Center Research Site at RPI, and Acting Director of Center for Integrated Electronics. He is Fellow of IEEE, APS, IET, ECS, WIF, MRS, AAAS, OSA, SPIE, Electromagnetic Academy, Member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, ASEE, elected Member and former Chair of US URSI Commission D, former Member-at-Large of the National Research Council of URSI, life member of IEEE MTT, SPIE, Sigma Xi, and Humboldt Society. Dr. Shur is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems and of the book series on Special Topics on Electronics and Systems, Regional Editor of physica status solidi (for North America), Member of the Honorary Board of Solid State Electronics and JSTS International Advisory Committee, Vice President for Technical Operations of IEEE Sensor Council, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Device Society, former Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society, and former Associate Editor of IEEE ED Transactions. He is co-founder and Vice President of Sensor Electronics Technology, Inc. He has been involved with many IEEE conferences, published many highly cited technical papers and books and has over 50 patents and pending patent applications. His awards include the 2012 Tibbetts Award from the US Business Administration for Technology Commercialization (joint with Dr. R. Gaska), 2012 iNEER Recognition Award for Innovations in Distance Learning for Engineering Education (joint with T. Ytterdal and T. Fjeldly), Technical Achievement Award from IEEE Sensors Council. Saint Petersburg Technical University Honorary Doctorate, IEEE Donald Fink Best Paper Award, IEEE Kirchmayer Award, the Gold Medal of the Russian Education Ministry, Best Paper awards, van der Ziel Award, Senior Humboldt Research Award, Pioneer Award from Compound Semi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineering Research Award, Commendation for Excellence in Technical Communications, and several best paper and Best Poster Awards. The Institute of Scientific Information listed Dr. Shur as Highly Cited Researcher. He is Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.