Antonio Núñez

Antonio Nunez was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1951. He received the higher engineering degree in 1974 from the School of Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid UPM, and the Ph. D. degree also from UPM in 1981. From 1974 to 1976 he worked as a Consultant for Telefonica. He was a Research Scientist with the Electrical Engineering Department of EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1981, working in CMOS processor design, and a Visiting Scientist (1986-1987) and Visiting Professor (1987-1988) at the School of Electrical Engineering of Purdue University, USA, working in compound semiconductor high-speed VLSI design and processor design for critical real time applications. He was appointed Titular Professor at the University of Las Palmas GC, in 1982, and Professor in 1989. Among other academic positions he has served as director of the Department of Electronics, director of the Institute for Applied Microelectronics, and dean of the School of Telecommunication Engineering of ULPGC. He has published five books, over 40 journal papers, and over 100 conference papers. He has supervised 16 PhD theses. His current research fields include heterogeneous architecture platform based design and hardware-software co-design for embedded systems, communication architecture synthesis for MPSoC, multimedia processor architectures, DVB, DAB, DMB, MPEG4, AVC and SVC codec design, smart imaging processors, and low power optimization of integrated circuits. He is a member and principal researcher of the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Society for Quality Electronic design ISQED, and a member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the European Association for Design Automation, and Euromicro, the European Association for Microelectronics and Computing. He is also in the steering committees of ISQED, Euromicro, DSD, and DCIS. Antonio Nunez has served as General Chairman or Program Committee Chairman of several conferences in the field as well as keynote speaker at CSIC (Anaheim, 1999) and Microelectronics (Adelaide, 1996) conferences. He is associate editor of Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design, Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing, Springer Journal of Real Time Image Processing, and Springer EURASIP Journal of Embedded Systems.