Víctor

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 Executive Director and General Manager of Synopsys Chile.

He has published several papers in IoT, EDA, Smart Agriculture, and embedded systems development. From 2012 to 2024 he was chair of the IEEE Chilean chapter of the CASS. He has been part of several conferences TCP (ISCAS, ICECS, LASCAS, VLSI SoC) and Steering Committees. He was member of the IEEE CASS Board of Governors for the period 2021 – 2023. He founded the Electronics for Agrifood SIG at CASS and chaired it until 2024. 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”. In 2024 he was awarded as “2024 CASS Meritorious Service Award”.  Victor’s research areas are EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Climate Change, and Smart Agriculture.

Ricardo

Biography:

Ricardo Reis received a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1983. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier in 2016. He is a full professor at the Informatics Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. His main research includes physical design automation, design methodologies, fault tolerant systems and microelectronics education. He has more than 700 publications including books, journals and conference proceedings. He was vice-president of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and he was also president of the Brazilian Computer Society (two terms) and vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society.

He is an active member of CASS and he received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. He was vice-president of CASS for two terms (2008/2011). He is the founder of the Rio Grande do Sul CAS Chapter, which got the World CASS Chapter of The Year Award 2011, 2012, 2018 and 2022, and R9 Chapter of The Year 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2020. He is a founder of several conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS, the CASS Flagship Conference in Region 9. He was the General or Program Chair of several conferences like IEEE ISVLSI, SBCCI, IFIP VLSI-SoC, ICECS, PATMOS. Ricardo was the Chair of the IFIP/IEEE VLSI-SoC Steering Committee, vice-chair of the IFIP WG10.5 and he is Chair of IFIP TC10. he received the Researcher of the Year Award in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He is a founding member of the SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and also founding member of SBMicro (Brazilian Microelectronics Society). He was member of CASS DLP Program (2014/2015), and he has done more than 70 invited talks in conferences. He is the CASS representative at the IEEE IoT Technical Committee. Ricardo received the IFIP Fellow Award in 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He received the 2023 IEEE CASS John Choma Educational Award and the 2024 Best Associate Editor of IEEE CASS Magazine.

Carlos

Biography:

He holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). He is Senior Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Founding Director of the Microelectronics Research Group (1992); Director of the Masters in Telecommunications Engineering (2011-2021). Since August 2019 he has been Director of the Research Promotion Department of the PUCP. He is also currently a member of the Administrative Tribunal of OSIPTEL. From 2008 to 2019 he was chair of the IEEE Peruvian chapter of the CASS. He was Chair of LASCAS(LatinAmerican Symposium Circuits and Systems) Steering Committee from 2016 to 2018.

Silva-Cárdenas is the author of the first Peruvian digital integrated circuit that achieved its manufacture and has more than 74 publications, he is the author of a book, three book chapters and co-editor of 2 books. He has taught postgraduate courses at the Universities Complutense de Madrid, Valencia and Autónoma de Barcelona in Spain and at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina. He has been General Chair of international events such as LASCAS2013, IBERCHIP2013, VLSI-SoC2019, LASCAS2021, IBERCHIP2021 and LASCAS2026, held in Arequipa and He has been Program chair of several events. He has received several awards such as the PUCP RESEARCH RECOGNITION AWARD for the last 9 years and the IEEE LatinAmerica Region 9 Eminent Engineer Award in 2019. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS-IEEE) from 2024 to 2026.