Brian Mears has a Ph.D. from City University, London. He worked in the computer industry in the U.K., at CERN in Geneva, at Bell Labs designing integrated circuits for audio compression, and at Intel Corporation for 29 years where he was a silicon architect and manager for embedded 32-bit microcontrollers, multi-core digital signal processors, and smartphone SoCs. His experience with complex SoC chip design led him to employ modeling and simulation techniques for silicon architecture design and software development. Retired from Intel Corporation he is currently an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University researching design techniques and tools for architecture design. Mohit Shah received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2015. He co-founded Genesis Artificial Intelligence, which specializes in advanced system and application design. He received his B.Tech from Nirma University, India in 2008. His research interests lie in speech processing and analysis methods, covering both DSP and machine-learning related aspects. He has authored several publications in these areas. His prior work in industry included research internships at Intel and Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in 2012 and 2013, respectively.