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About the Authors
Georges G.E. Gielen (gielen@kuleu
ven.be) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees in electrical engineering
from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 1986
and 1990, respectively. In 1990, he
was a post-doctoral research assistant and a visiting lecturer with the
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, the University
of California Berkeley. Since 1991, he
has worked in the MICAS research
group with the Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, where
he currently is a full professor. His
research interests include computeraided design of analog and mixedsignal ICs, including data converters
and sensor readout circuits. He has
authored or coauthored 10 books
and more than 600 papers in edited

books, international journals, and
conference proceedings. He is Fellow
of the IEEE and received the IEEE Circuits and Society Mac Van Valkenburg
Award in 2015. He is a 1997 laureate
of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts in the discipline of engineering.
Luis Hernandez (luish@ing
.uc3m.es) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D.
degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1989 and 1995,
respectively. He completed a postdoctoral stay during 1996 at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Oregon State University.
In 1997, he joined the University Carlos III of Madrid, where he is currently
a full professor in the Department of
Electronic Technology and leads the
Mixed Signal Microelectronic Design
and Applications research group. His
research interests focus on signal theory, mixed-signal microelectronics,
and, specifically, data acquisition using sigma-delta modulation. He has
published more than 150 scientific
articles and holds 20 international
patents. He is a member of the IEEE
Circuits and Society Analog Signal
Processing Technical Committee and
has been the associate editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
and II for eight years.
Pieter Rombouts (pieter.rombouts
@ugent.be) received his engineering degree in applied physics and
his Ph.D. degree in electronics from
Ghent University, Belgium, in 1994
and 2000, respectively. In 1994, he
joined the Department of Electronics and Information Systems at Ghent
University, where he has been a professor of analog electronics since
2005. His technical interests include
signal processing, circuits and systems theory, analog circuit design,
and sensor systems. The main focus
of his research has been on analogto-digital and digital-to-analog conversion. He has served or is currently
serving as an associate editor for IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems
I and II and Electronics Letters.


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