ARMANDO FERMIN
ASTARLOA CUELLAR

Armando Astarloa received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 1999 and 2005. After several years of developing his professional career as a hardware engineer in the private sector, in 2001 he joined the staff of the UPV/EHU in the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao as a full-time researcher and lecturer. He is a founding member of the Research Applied Electronics Research Team (APERT), and his research topics include reliable electronic design for reconfigurable devices, industrial networking, and cybersecurity. He is the author of dozens of technical contributions in international scientific journals, conferences, book chapters, patents, and he collaborates as a committee member in IEC/IEEE working groups. In 2008 he enrolled in the Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems in Ireland as a visiting researcher. In 2010, he launched System-on-Chip engineering S.L. (SoC-e.com) business project, and he held the CEO position at this company from 2016 to 2020. In 2021, he achieved the Full Professor position at the UPV/EHU and in 2023 he gained the position of Director of SoC4sensing Chair on Semiconductors.