WORKSHOP CHAIRS

The workshop will be organized and chaired by B. Linares-Barranco and A. Rodríguez-Vázquez. A brief resume of each follows.

a) B. Linares-Barranco received the B.Sc. Degree in Electronic Physics in June 1986, and the M.S. degree in microelectronics in September 1987, both from the University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain. He received his first Ph.D. degree in High-Frequency OTA-C Oscillator Design in June 1990 from the University of Seville, Spain, and a second Ph.D. degree in Analog Neural Network Design in December 1991 from Texas A&M University, College-Station, Texas, U.S.A. Since September 1991 he is a Senior Researcher at the Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Department of the Microelectronics National Center, Sevilla, Spain. He has been involved with Circuit Design for Telecommunication Circuits, VLSI Emulators of Biological Neurons, Neural Based Pattern Recognition Systems, Hearing Aids, Precision Circuit Design for Instrumentation Equipment, VLSI Electrical Parameters Characterization.

b) A. Rodríguez-Vázquez received the B.Sc. Degree in Electronic Physics in June 1977 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Physics in 1983, both from the University of Seville, Spain. Since 1978 he has been with the Department of Electronics and Electromagnetism at the University of Seville where he is a full professor. He is also at the Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Department of the Microelectronics National Center, Sevilla, Spain. Starting on June 1993, he has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, in the area of Integrated Circuits. He has been the organizer of the Special Sessions of the IEEE 1989 and 1990 Int. Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He has been the Technical Program Secretary of the 1993 European Solid-State Circuits Conference, member of the Analog Signal Processing Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and has received the IEEE 1995 Guillemin-Cauer award for the paper: "Current Mode Techniques for the Implementation of Continuous and Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Networks". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 40, pp. 132-146, IEEE March 1993. Dr. Rodríguez-Vázquez current research interests are in the fields of analog/digital integrated circuit design, in CMOS and BiCMOS technologies, neural and fuzzy network implementation, chaotic neural networks, interface circuits for image and radiation sensor applications, and development of CAD tools for analog circuit design. He has published about 50 journal papers, about 100 conference papers and 10 book chapters. Dr. Rodríguez-Vázquez undergraduate teaching activities are in the fields of electronic devices, electronic circuits and integrated circuits. He has also taught postgraduate courses on analog circuit design and on neural network implementations at several spanish universities. Also, he has presented several invited talks on the same topics at different international conferences.