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Magdy S. Abadir received the B.S. degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1978, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1986. Currently he is the manager for the Global Strategy, Tools and Methodology group of NCSG, Freescale Semiconductor. Prior to that he was the group manager for tools and methodologies of Motorola's high-performance design group in Austin, Texas. Prior to joining Motorola he was the General Manager of Best IC Labs in Austin Texas (a Burn-in and Test Engineering firm). From 1986 to 1994 he worked at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) as a senior member of the technical staff. Dr. Abadir has co-founded and chaired a series of international workshops on the economics of design, test and manufacturing and on microprocessor test and verification. He has co-edited several books on those subjects, and he also published over 120 technical journal and conference papers in the areas of test economics, design for test, and design verification and economics. Three of his papers received best paper awards (DATE 98, ASP-DAC 2002, and DATE 2003). Dr. Abadir is an adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at Austin and he is a senior member of the IEEE. | 