Fernando Guarín, PhD.

IEEE Fellow
Senior Past President Electron Devices Society EDS

Fernando Guarín, PhD.

BIOGRAPHY:

PhD. Fernando Guarin retired in July 2022 as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Global Foundries in East Fishkill New York where he led the reliability team responsible for the qualification of 5G technologies. In 2015 he retired from IBM’s Semiconductor Division after 27 years with the Senior Member of Technical Staff title. He earned his BSEE from the “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana”, in Bogotá, Colombia, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Arizona, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY. He has worked in microelectronic reliability for over 40 years.
From 1980 until 1988 he worked in the Military and Aerospace Operations division of National Semiconductor Corporation. In 1988 he joined IBM’s microelectronics division where he worked in the reliability physics and modeling of Advanced Bipolar, CMOS and Silicon Germanium BiCMOS technologies. Most recently he was the leader of the team qualifying GlobalFoundries RF 5G technology offerings.
Dr. Guarín is an IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS), where he has served in many capacities including; member of the IEEE’s EDS Board of Governors, Chair of the EDS Education Committee, Secretary for EDS. He was the EDS President 2018-2019.

Lluis F. Marsal

Distinguished Professor and full professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Spain.

Lluis F. Marsal, PhD.

BIOGRAPHY:

Prof. Lluis F. Marsal is Distinguished Professor and full professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Ph.D. from the University Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain, 1997. Postdoctoral researcher at the ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada (1998-1999).

In 2012, he received the URV’s RQR Award for the high quality in research and in 2014, he received the UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2014 and 2021 ICREA Academia Awards from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2019, he is the Chair of the Subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC) – Regions 8 IEEE- EDS and member of the Regions & Chapters Committee and Member of the EDS Technical Committee on Photovoltaic Devices. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the EDS. He is also an Optica Fellow (formerly OSA) for his leading contributions to optoelectronic and sensing devices and photonic and optical nanostructured materials. He has been a member of advisory and technical committees in several international and national conferences and has been visiting professor at several universities and research institutions (CINVESTAV – Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, McMaster University, Canada, ICMM-CSIC, BiomaGUNE, Spain, Mawson Institute, Australia). He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and 4 patents. His current research interests focus on polymer and hybrid solar cells and nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low–cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing and bio-applications.

Edmundo Gutiérrez. PhD.

General Director of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Puebla, Mexico. Prof. Gutiérrez is an IEEE Fellow.
Mexico

Edmundo Gutiérrez, PhD.

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Edmundo A. Gutiérrez-D. received the PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium in 1993, with the thesis entitled “Electrical performance of submicron CMOS technologies from 300 K down to 4.2K”.  From 1988 to 1993 was a research assistant at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium. In 1993 joined as a researcher the Department of Electronics of INAOE. In 1996 spent one year as invited Professor at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. In 1996 he also spent two months at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil as a Summer PhD lecturer. From 1999 to 2000 was appointed Head of the INAOE Department of Electronics. From 2000 to 2002 spent two years as Design Manager of the Motorola Mexico Center for Semiconductor Technology in Puebla City. In 2002 he was also invited Professor at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. From 2002 to 2005 rejoined INAOE as Professor of the Department of Electronics. From 2005 to 2007 was the Research Manager of the Intel Systems Research Center Mexico in Guadalajara City.

Prof. Gutiérrez is author of the book “Low Temperature Electronics, Physics, Devices, Circuits and Applications” (Academic Press, 2000), and the book “Nano-Scaled Semiconductor Devices, Physics, Modelling, Characterisation, and Societal Impact” (IET Press, 2016). He has supervised 4 M.Sc. and 15 PhD theses and has published more than 140 scientific papers and conferences in the field of physics of semiconductor materials and devices, including MOS transistors, temperature, optical, and magnetic sensors. He is Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Devices and Materials Reliability journal.

Currently Prof. Gutierrez is the General Director of the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Puebla, Mexico. Prof. Gutiérrez is an IEEE Fellow.

Victor Grimblatt, PhD.

R&D Group Director and General Manager,

Latin America Executive Sponsor,

Synopsys Chile R&D Center.

Victor Grimblatt, PhD.

BIOGRAPHY:

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 his PhD on Electronics in 2021 from University of Bordeaux. He is currently R&D Group Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile.
He has published several papers in IoT, EDA, Smart Agriculture and embedded systems development. Since 2012 he is chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He has been part of several conferences TCP (ISCAS, ICECS, LASCAS) and Steering Committees. He is member of the IEEE CASS Board of
Governors for the period 2021 – 2023. He founded the Electronics for Agrifood SIG at CASS and chairs it. He was Chair of LASCAS Steering Committee from 2018 to 2022. He is CASS representative at the IEEE Climate Change TAB.
He was President of the Chilean Electronic and Electrical Industry Association (AIE) from 2017 to 2021.
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”. In 2022 he was awarded as “IEEE/AIE Best Engineer” in Chile. In 2023 he was awarded as IEEE R9 Outstanding Engineer”

Victor’s research areas are EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Climate Change, and Smart Agriculture