Profile: Erik was attracted by classes in electronic circuits and solid-state devices to pursue a PhD in analog circuit design. As a second year graduate student at Texas A&M University, his current research focuses on highly programmable analog filters and his future research and design interests involve high-speed RF circuits, especially high-speed amplifiers. Erik, as an undergraduate, worked as a lab proctor in UT’s digital logic design class. He also interned at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, Texas in the microcontrollers group where he designed mixed-signal analog circuits, including oscillators and control blocks and also gained laboratory measurement and test automation experience while characterizing voltage references and bus-interface circuitry.