Edward Chan grew up in Kuantan, Malaysia before coming to Stanford University in 1990 to study Electrical Engineering. In 1993, he received Stanford's Deans' Award for his academic achievements, and for his development of adaptive feedback systems at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where he worked from 1992 to 1995. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 along with the Henry Ford II Award for the highest academic achievement in the School of Engineering. In 1996, he received the Master of Science degree. In the Fall of 1999, he completed his thesis entitled "Characterization and Modeling of Electrostatically Actuated Polysilicon Micromechanical Devices" for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. His other interest besides micromechanical systems and simulation techniques is electromagnetics. He spent the summer of 1995 analyzing the performance of interconnects on multichip modules (MCM) at MicroModule Systems, Inc. Since January 2000, he has been working on components for optical communications such as optical cross connect switches, add/drop multiplexors, gain equalizers, attenuators and lithium niobate modulators, and components for wireless communications such as thin film resonators and variable inductors at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, NJ.