Roc Berenguer of TECNUN -- University of Navarra

Talk to promote Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering  degrees within high school students during the 'Jornadas de Iniciación a la Ingeniería' organized by TECNUN. Three basic examples as autonomous driving, sensor for robotics and electronics to read neuronal signals are introduced at a very basic level to show different fields where they could work after finishing the degree. IEEE society is also introduced to the students as a society that groups all these fields of knowledge. 

Biography:

Roc Berenguer (M’05–SM’16) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from TECNUN, Navarra, Spain, in 1996 and 2000, respectively.,From 1999 to 2015, he was with Ceit-IK4, San Sebastian, Spain, first as an Associate Researcher until 2013 and as the Head of the Electronics and Communication Unit until 2015. Through Ceit-IK4 and INCIDE (Spin-off of the Ceit’s COMMIC group), he was an External Consultant with Siemens, Munich, Germany, in 2000, Hitachi Microsystems Europe, Maidenhead, U.K., in 2001, Xignal Technologies, Munich, from 2001 to 2002, Seiko-Epson, Barcelona, Spain, from 2006 to 2007, and Innophase, Chicago, IL, USA, from 2012 to 2014, where he collaborated in the design of several RF front-ends for wireless standards such as GSM-EDGE, DAB, and Wibree. He has transferred technology to two start-up companies: INCIDE S.A in 2000 (April 2014 INCIDE was acquired by IXYS and changed name to IXYS-San Sebastian) and FARSENS S.L in 2008. In 2009, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, where he was involved in the design of a 77-GHz receiver front-end in 65-nm CMOS for a FM-CW automotive radar. Since then, he has also been an Affiliated Researcher with the High Performance Integrated Circuits and Microsystems Laboratory, IIT. In 2010, he was a Visiting Scholar with the High Speed Electronics Laboratory, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, where he was involved in the design of a power amplifier at 60 GHz. He is currently a Professor with the Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering Department, Technological Campus of the University of Navarra, San Sebastian, Spain. His current research interests include CMOS RF and millimeter-wave IC design, ultra-low power analog circuit design for batteryless sensor nodes, and high-speed signal processing. He has authored or co-authored over 70 refereed publications in journals and conferences. He holds ten patents and co-authored Design and Test of High Quality Integrated Inductors for RF Applications in Conventional Technologies (Springer, 2003), GPS and Galileo: Dual RF Front-End Receiver Design, Fabrication and Test (McGraw-Hill, 2008), and Linear CMOS RF Power Amplifiers (Springer, 2014). He is an advisor of the Spanish Agency of Evaluation and Prospective.,Dr. Berenguer served on the TPC of the IEEE European Solid State Circuit Conference, the IEEE Midwest Symposium Circuits and Systems, and the IEEE Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics. He also served as a reviewer for several journals such as the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—II: Express Briefs.

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