Tsutomu Sasao received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Osaka University, Osaka Japan, in 1972, 1974, and 1977, respectively. He has held faculty/research positions at Osaka University, Japan; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, NY; the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan; and Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan. Currently, he is a visiting researcher of Meiji University, Japan. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and has published many books on logic design.