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About the Author

Fei Yuan received the PhD. degree in electrical engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in October 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the coauthor of the book Computer Methods for Analysis of Mixed-Mode Switching Circuits (with Ajoy Opal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April...