Charvaka Duvvury is a Texas Instruments Fellow working in the Silicon Technology Development group at Dallas. Dr. Duvvury received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the University of Toledo. His current work is on ESD development for the deep submicron CMOS technologies. He has published over 65 papers in technical journals, co-authored 3 books, and holds 25 patents with several pending. He has given numerous international tutorials and invited papers on ESD phenomena for IC designs. Dr. Duvvury also has been the organizer and instructor for the UC Berkeley Course on ESD for the past ten years. He is a member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma XI.