Antonio Nunez

Antonio Núñez was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1951. He received the Higher Engineering degree in 1974 from the School of Telecommunication Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid, and received the Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the same university. From 1974 to 1976 he worked as a Consultant for Telefonica. He was a Research Scientist with the Electrical Engineering Department of EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1981, working on CMOS processor design, and a Visiting Scientist (1986-1987) and a Visiting Professor (1987- 1988) at the School of Electrical Engineering of Purdue University, USA, working on compound-semiconductor high-speed VLSI design. He was appointed a Titular Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in 1982, and Professor in 1989. Among other academic positions he has served as a Director of the Department of Electronics, Director of the Institute for Applied Microelectronics, and Dean of the School of Telecommunication Engineering of ULPGC. He has published five books, over 40 journal papers, and 90 conference papers. He has supervised 11 Ph.D. theses. His current research fields include heterogeneous architecture platform-based design for embedded systems, communication architecture synthesis for MPSoC, multimedia processor architectures, DVB, DAB, and DMB codec design, and optimization of integrated circuits. He is a Member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Standards Association (Design Languages), The European Association for Design Automation, Euromicro, and others.

Biography Updated on 8 July 2005

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