Stephen Phillips, Ph.D. currently serves as Chair and Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. Phillips received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1984 and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 2002 he served on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University where he held appointments in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics; Systems, Control and Industrial Engineering; and subsequently Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. From 1995 to 2002 he also served as director of the Center for Automation and Intelligent System Research. In 2002 he joined the faculty of Arizona State University as Professor of Electrical Engineering. He has held visiting positions at the NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center and at the University of Washington and is a Professional Engineer registered in the state of Ohio.