Vasilis F. Pavlidis received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, NY, USA, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2012, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Integrated Systems Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor within the Advanced Processor Technologies Group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. His current research interests include the area of interconnect modeling and design, 3-D integration, networks-on-chip, and related design issues in VLSI. He is the co-creator of the Rochester Cube, the Manchester Thermal Analyzer Software, and leading author of the book Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design