Michael Gastpar (Ph.D. EPFL, 2002, M.S. UIUC, 1999, Dipl. El-Ing, ETH, 1997) has been an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2003. He was also a student in electrical engineering and philosophy at the Universities of Edinburgh and Lausanne, and a summer researcher in the Mathematics of Communications Department at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He won the 2002 EPFL Best Thesis Award, and an NSF CAREER award in 2004.