Speaker Bio
Prof. Eduard Alarcón received the M. Sc. (National award) and Ph.D. degrees (honors) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Spain, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electronics Engineering at the School of Telecommunications at UPC, where he is currently full professor. From August 2003 to January 2004, July-August 2006 and July-August 2010 he was a Visiting Professor at the CoPEC center, University of Colorado at Boulder, US, and during January-June 2011 he was Visiting Professor at the School of ICT/Integrated Devices and Circuits, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. During the period 2006-2009 he was Associate Dean of International Affairs at the School of Telecommunications Engineering, UPC. He was in 2018-2019 Senior advisor at General Directorate R+D+i, Ministery of Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities. ICREA Academia Award by the Generalitat de Catalunya 2019-2024. He is founding member of the strategy group and ambassador of The Collider entrepreneurship program at the Mobile Word Capital. He has co-authored more than 400 scientific publications, 6 books, 8 book chapters and 12 patents, (including co-authorship with colleagues at MIT -2 research groups-, UC Berkeley, Google, Samsung, Intel, Univ. Cambridge, GeorgiaTech, CU Boulder, KTH, ETH Zurich, Aalto, TU Deflt, Univ. Toronto, NXP, UC Dublin, Teheran Univ Science and Technology Iran, Univ. Perth Australia, RTW Aachen, EPFL, and IBM Zurich). He has been involved in different National, European (H2020 FET-Open, Flag-ERA, ESA) and US (DARPA, NSF, NASA) R&D projects within his research interests including the areas of on-chip energy management and RF circuits, energy harvesting and wireless energy transfer, nanosatellites and satellite architectures for Earth Observation, nanotechnology-enabled wireless communications and Artificial Intelligence chip architectures and more recently Quantum Computing. He has received the GOOGLE Faculty Research Award (2013), SAMSUNG Advanced Institute of Technology Global Research Program gift (2012), and INTEL Doctoral Student Honor Programme Fellowship (2014). He has given 35 invited, keynote and plenary lectures and tutorials across all continents, including invited lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intel Massachusetts, University of Cambridge, IBM TJ Watson NY, Indian Institute of Technology Karagphur, Cadence Santa Clara, MIET Moscow, U. Auckland, New Zealand, U. Shiraz, Iran, and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Seoul was appointed by the IEEE CAS society as distinguished lecturer for 2009-2010 and lectures yearly MEAD courses at EPFL. He has participated in 15 debate panels including at IBM TJ Watson Yorkwotn Heights New York, Cambridge University, EPFL. Professional officer responsibilities include elected member of the IEEE CAS Board of Governors (2010-2013), member of the IEEE CAS long term strategy committee, Vice President Finance of IEEE CAS (2015) and Vice President for Technical Activities of IEEE CAS (2016-2017, and 2017-2018). He was recipient of the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award at the 1998 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He was the invited co-editor of a special issue of the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing journal devoted to current-mode circuit techniques, a special issue of the International Journal on Circuit Theory and Applications, invited associate editor for a IEEE TPELS special issue on PwrSOC. He co-organized special sessions related to on-chip power management at IEEE ISCAS03, IEEE ISCAS06 and NOLTA 2012, and lectured tutorials at IEEE ISCAS09, ESSCIRC 2011, IEEE VLSI-DAT 2012 and APCCAS 2012. He was the 2007 Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committee on Power Circuits. He was acting as general co-chair of DCIS 2017, Barcelona, the Federated Satellite Systems 2020 workshop, and IEEE CAS flagship IEEE ISCAS 2020, Seville. He was the technical program co-chair of the 2007 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design - ECCTD07 and of LASCAS 2013, Special Sessions co-chair at IEEE ISCAS 2013. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - II: Express briefs (2006-2007) and Associate Editor of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems – I: Regular papers (2006-2012) and currently serves as Associate Editor Elsevier’s Nano Communication Networks journal (2009-), Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE) (2011-) and in the Senior founding Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on IEEE Journal on Emerging topics in Circuits and Systems, of which he is currently Editor-in-Chief (2018). He has supervised 25 PhD thesis completed, 5 on-going PhD students, 80 MSc’s thesis students completed and 10 Intl visiting scholars. His publications have close to 11000 citations and an h-index of 51 according to Google Scholar. In Academia, activities related to innovation in higher education include General co-chair of the 2014 CDIO Barcelona International Conference and organizing committee of the 2013 CDIO International conference hosted at MIT and Harvard