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He has served as Editor, Associate Editor, and Guest
Editor for IEEE and non-IEEE journals, is on the committee of several international journals and conferences,
and has chaired several international IEEE (NDES 1996,
CNNA 1996, ECCTD 2007, ESSCIRC 2010, ICECS 2013) and
SPIE conferences. He served as VP Region 8 of the IEEE
Circuits 1087 and Systems Society (2009-2012) and as
Chair of the IEEE CASS Fellow Evaluation Committee
(2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015). He has been appointed General Chairman for IEEE ISCAS 2020.

nocam inc. He was also Assistant Teacher at the University of Cádiz, Spain. Since February 2018, he is Associate
Professor at the University of Seville, Spain, where he
teaches and conducts research. His main research interests include Address Event Representation (AER) vision systems, frame-based vision sensors, smart sensors,
wireless vision sensor networks, signal processing, and
very large scale integration emulators of biological systems. Dr Leñero-Bardallo is a member of the IEEE Sensory
Systems Committee since 2012.

Jorge Fernández-Berni received the
B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electronics
and telecommunication, the M.Sc. degree
(Hons.) in microelectronics, and the Ph.D.
degree (Hons.) from the University of
Seville, Sevilla, Spain, in 2004, 2008, and
2011, respectively. From 2005 to 2006, he was with Telecommunication Industry. He has been a Visiting Researcher
with the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, and the
University of Notre-Dame, Notre- Dame, IN, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electromagnetism, University of Seville. He has
authored or co-authored some 60 papers in refereed journals, conferences, and workshops. He is also the first author
of a book and two book chapters, and the first inventor of
two licensed patents. His current research interests include
smart image sensors, vision chips and embedded vision
systems. He received the Best Paper Award in image sensors and imaging systems, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San
Francisco, CA, USA, in 2014, and the Third Prize of the Student Paper Award in the IEEE CNNA 2010: 12th International
Workshop on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Ion Vornicu received the degree in electronics engineering (specialization in
micro-technologies) in 2008, the M.Sc.
degree in modern signal processing
techniques, and the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Gheorghe Asachi
Technical University of Iasi, Romania, in 2011, with a focus on CMOS implementation of a type of cellular neural
networks for spatio-temporal analog image processing,
log-domain circuits, and smart CMOS imagers. Since 2011,
he has been an Associate Researcher with the Institute
of Microelectronics of Seville, Spain. His current research
interests lie in the design and test of CMOS sensors based
on single photon avalanche diodes used for 3-D vision
and nuclear medicine imaging, such as positron emission tomography. He received a Best Paper Award from
the Sensory System Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Juan Antonio Leñero-Bardallo (IEEE
Member 2017) received the M.Sc. degree
in telecommunications engineering and
the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics
from the University of Seville, Seville,
Spain, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
From January 2006 to January 2010, he worked towards
the Ph.D. degree sponsored by a national grant. After the
completion of his Ph.D., he served in several academic
institutions and worked for the semiconductor industry.
From September 2010 to March 2010, he worked as a
Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, New Haven,
CT, USA. From March 2010 to August 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Oslo. From August 2013 to March 2016, he was postdoctoral associate
at the University of Seville, Spain. From March 2016 to
September 2016, he worked as a senior engineer at Chro106

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Ricardo Carmona-Galán received the
degree in physics in 1993 and the Ph.D.
degree in microelectronics in 2002 from
the University of Seville, Spain. From
1996 to 1998, he was a Research Assistant with Prof. Chua's Laboratory, EECS
Department, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 1999 to 2005, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronics, University of
Seville. He held a post-doctoral position at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, from 2006 to
2007, where he worked on interfaces for CMOS compatible nanostructures for multispectral light sensing. He
has collaborated with start-up companies in Anafocus,
Seville, and Eutecus, Berkeley. He has designed several
vision chips implementing different focal plane operators for early vision processing. Since 2005, he has been
a Tenured Scientist with the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville His main research focus has been on VLSI
implementation of concurrent sensor/processor arrays
for real time image processing and vision. He has coauthored more than 120 papers in refereed journals and
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