Yen-Kuang Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, and is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He has 20+ US patents, 25+ pending patent applications, and 85+ technical publications. He is one of the key contributors to Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 in Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processors and Advanced Vector Extension in Intel(R) Core(TM) i7. His research interests include developing innovative multimedia applications, studying the performance bottleneck in current computer platforms, and designing next generation processor with multiple cores. He is an associate editor of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System for Video Technology, and Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He is a member of 4 IEEE technical committees and has served as a program committee member of 30+ international conferences on multimedia, video communication, image processing, VLSI circuits and systems, parallel processing, and software optimization. He is an invited participant to 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (National Academy of Engineering) and to 2003 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). http://sites.google.com/site/ykchen/index