Bio

The following part is a Short Bio that describes my current activities, education, and professional experience.

From 2019 I became Associate Professor at the Electronics Department, EECS School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I have been appointed Program Director of the Degree Programme in Electronics and Computer Engineering TIEDB (Högskoleingenjörsutbildning i elektronik och datorteknik)

From 2016 I became Assistant Professor at the Electronics Department, EECS School, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In 2017 I obtained the Docent title in Integrated Devices and Circuits.

From 2009 to 2016 I have been postdoctoral researcher at the integrated devices and circuits (EKT) department, ICT School at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I have been involved in different research projects and initiatives such as: low power RF, analog and mixed signal ICs for wireless applications, digitally enhanced RF/AMS circuits, ultra low-power circuits for biomedical systems, high frequency circuits for Spin Torque Oscillator technology, and graphene-based RF & AMS circuits.

From 2005 to 2009 I completed my PhD at the RamSiS group at KTH. My research topic was wideband RF front-ends for multi-band, multi-standard receivers using submicron/nanometer CMOS technology. My PhD advisor was Prof. Ana Rusu. My main reseach areas were: system-level radio block specification extraction, high-frequency low-power analog circuit design (LNA, mixers, IF filters), calibration of RFIC circuits and programming of EDA/CAD tools for automation of RF/analog circuit design.

From 2003 to 2005 I did my M.Sc in System-on-Chip design at the Institute of Microelectronics and Information Technology (IMIT) at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. The title of my thesis was "Design of a DS-UWB Transceiver", which included design, prototyping and testing of an UWB pulse generator.

From 2001 to 2003 I worked at Desytel Inc., a start-up company in which I was co-founder. I did system level integration at board level of an automatic vehicle location (AVL) which included OEM platforms such as GPSs, wireless comm. systems, and microcontrolled embedded systems. Here I also received a 3-month training at the MingChi Institute of Technology, Taipei, ROC (Taiwan).

From 1995 to 2001 I did my B.Sc degree in electrical engineering at the Army Polytechnic School (ESPE), Quito, Ecuador. I spent the last year of my education as a trainee at the Army Research Lab (CICTE) where I worked in different projects such as GMSK modem design, GPS integration, data acquisition, and MMI interfaces. I graduated as first in class (June-2001).

An updated two-page CV can be found here: