Professor Eric Pop has been appointed the inaugural Pease-Ye Professor. The Pease-Ye Professorship was established with an endowed gift from Dr. Jun Ye and Caren Wang. The professorship honors Dr. Ye’s relationship with his Stanford PhD advisor, R. Fabian Pease, the William E. Ayer Professor in Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, who served on the electrical engineering faculty from 1978 to 2009 and is renowned for his contributions to electron beam lithography and to instrumentation development for the semiconductor industry.