ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Dr. Behnam Aazhang is the J. S. Abercrombie Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. His research interests are in the areas of communication theory, information theory, signal processing, and their applications to wireless communication, wireless networks, and neuroengineering, with emphasis on closed-loop neuromodulation and real-time brain stimulation. Dr. Aazhang received his B.S. (with highest honors, 1981), M.S., 1983, and Ph.D., 1986, in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wade Adams is a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. He was educated at the U.S. Air Force Academy (B.S. Physics 1968), Vanderbilt University (M.S. Health Physics 1970), and the University of Massachusetts (Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering 1984). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Adams also retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of Colonel in 1998. Dr. Adams joined Rice University in January 2002, as the Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, later named the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University, the first organized nanotech center in the world, founded in 1993 by its namesake. In January 2012 he became Associate Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering. Dr. Genevera Allen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University. Her research interests include developing mathematical tools to help scientists understand massive amounts of data sets that
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