ALBERTO GARCIA-ORTIZ (Senior Member, IEEE) obtained the diploma degree in Telecommunication Systems from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 1998. In 2003, he received from the Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany) the Ph.D. degree with “summa cum laude.” From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Hardware Design Engineer at IBM; after that he joint the start-up AnaFocus (Spain). He is currently full professor for the chair of integrated digital systems at the university of Bremen. Dr. Garcia-Ortiz received the “Outstanding dissertation award” in 2004 from the European Design and Automation Association. In 2005, he received from IBM an innovation award for contributions to leakage estimation. He is reviewer of several conferences, journals, and European projects.  His interests include low-power design and estimation, communication-centric design, SoC integration, and hardware accelerators for machine learning.