2022 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON)

Ricardo Reis has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil (1978). He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Microelectronics option, from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France (1983). He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier in 2016. He is a professor at the Informatics Institute of UFRGS. His main research topics include physical chip design automation, design methodologies, and designs for low-power and fault-tolerant systems. He has more than 750 publications, including books, magazines and conference proceedings. He was vice president of the IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) and also president of the Brazilian Society of Informatics (two terms) and vice president of the Brazilian Society of Microelectronics. He is a senior member of IEEE CASS and received the “2015 IEEE CASS Meririous Service Award” 2015. He was Vice President of IEEE CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio CASS Chapter
Grande do Sul, which won the CASS Award for World Chapter of the Year 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2022, and R9 Chapter of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. One of the founders of several conferences such as SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Coordinator of several conferences such as IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was president of the Steering Committee of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC. He is Vice President of IFIP WG10.5 and was President of IFIP TC10. He was also the founder of EMicro. In 2002, he received the Researcher of the Year Award from the State of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Society of Computing) and also a founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Society of Microelectronics). He was a member of the CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and has given more than 80 invited talks at international conferences. He is a member of IEEE CASS BoG and IEEE CEDA BoG. Member of the IEEE IoT Initiative Coordinating Committee. Coordinator of the CASS IoT SiG. Reis received the IFIP Fellow Award in 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.

Manuel Delgado-Restituto received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Physics (Honors) from the University of Seville, Spain, in 1996. Since then, he has been working with the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (IMSE-Univ. of Sevilla) where he currently heads a research group on low-power medical microelectronics and works in the design of silicon and optoelectronic microsystems for understanding biological neural systems, the development of neural prostheses and brain-machine interfaces, the implementation of wireless body area network transceivers and the realization of RFID transponders with biomedical sensing capabilities.
Manuel served as an Associate Editor for different IEEE Publications (TCAS-I, TCAS-II and TBioCAS) and as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE JOURNAL on EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS IN CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS (JETCAS). He also served as Vice President for Publications and President-Elect of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and now isserving as President of this Society. He has also served (or is serving) in the Organizing Committee of different international conferences, including his role as General Co-Chair for ISCAS 2020 and as Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2022.

Victor Grimblatt has an engineering diploma in microelectronics from Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG – France) and an electronic engineering diploma from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile).  He got a PhD on Electronics University of Bordeaux.. He is currently R&D Group Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile, leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). He opened the Synopsys Chile R&D Center in 2006. He has expertise and knowledge in
business and technology and understands very well the trends of the electronic industry; therefore he is often consulted for new technological business development. He has published several papers in IoT, EDA and embedded systems development, and since 2007 he has been invited to several Latin American Conferences (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) to talk about Circuit Design, EDA, IoT, and Embedded Systems. From 2006 to 2008 he was member of the “Chilean Offshoring Committee” organized by the Minister of Economy of Chile.  In 2010 he was awarded as “Innovator of the Year in Services Export”. He is also member of several Technical Program Committees on Circuit Design and Embedded Systems. Since 2012 he is chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He was President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association (AIE) from 2017 to 2021. Since 2021 he is member of the IEEE CASS Board of Governors (CAS BoG). He is the chair of the IEEE CAS Special Interest Group on Electronics for Agrifood. Victor Grimblatt was professor of Electronics and IC Design in Universidad de Chile and Universidad de los Andes. He is currently lecturing a course IoT for Agriculture at Universidad Santo Tomas and a course on Digital IC Design at Universidad de la Friontera, Chile. Victor’s research areas are EDA (Electronic Design Automation), and Smart Agriculture applying Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT.