Yik Khoon Ee received his Bachelor's degree (1^st Class Honors) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in May 2003. He was a recipient of the Singapore Economic Development Board Photonics Scholarship. He then worked in Denselight Semiconductors (a start up optoelectronics company), Singapore, as a process engineer from May 2003 to Dec 2003. His main job responsibilities included process control and development of InP based optoelectronics. Later, he joined Agilent Technologies, Singapore, as a VCSEL product engineer. His main job scope included growth of III-V semiconductor material for GaAs VCSEL and product engineering of short wave implant VCSEL. He received the Agilent Star Award in Oct 2004, for playing an important role in transferring a product from engineering to production mode in shortest time possible. He has been a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, within the P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University, since June 2005. He completed his Ph.D. study on November 2009. He has published more than 50 conference and  journal article papers before his graduation.