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MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

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As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics Travel Awards for 2021. The awards have been granted to: Dr. Peng Hang and Dr. Alfonso González Briones. 

• Peng Hang
  
  Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Research interest: vehicle dynamics and control; decision making; motion planning and control of automated and connected vehicles (CAVs) 

• Alfonso González Briones
  
  Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Salamanca, Spain
  Research interest: energy optimization in households and intelligent buildings 

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. 

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief, Electronics

The alliance of computers and telecommunications, defining the high-tech revolution of our time, is characterized by the convergence of the basic concepts of digital, analog, and mixed circuits (and systems), which enable the present devices to perform their intended function having major direct and indirect impacts on our lives. In this age of digital electronics, the importance of analog circuitry and signal processing concepts is essential for the progress of the field and for new developments.

The aim of the “Circuits and Signal Processing” Section is to host significant and original contributions and state-of-the-art review articles in this field of research. The scope of this section is broad, ranging from mathematical foundations to practical engineering applications, measurement techniques, compliance verification, and reliability studies.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Circuits and systems for the Internet of things (IoT);
• Circuits and systems for 5G networks;
• Circuits and systems of Radio Frequency (RF) applications;
• Analog, digital, and mixed signal processing building blocks;
• Non-linear circuits and systems;
• Amplifiers, filters, oscillators;
• Circuits and systems for biomedical applications;
• Power and energy circuits and systems;
• Multimedia systems and signal processing.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Circuit_Signal_Processing.

If you have any questions, please contact electronics@mdpi.com.

Electronics is holding the Travel Awards to sponsor two Postdocs to attend a relevant conference of their choice in 2021, as well as the Young Investigator Award, which will be awarded to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the research field of electronics and its applications.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Costas Psychalinos has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of "Circuit and Signal Processing" in Electronics.

Costas Psychalinos received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics and Electronics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher in the VLSI Design Laboratory, University of Patras. From 1996 to 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Assistant Professor at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. From 2004, he serves as Faculty Member at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece, and, currently, he is a full Professor.

His research area is in the development of CMOS analog integrated circuits, including fractional-order circuits and systems, continuous and discrete-time analog filters, amplifiers, and low voltage/low power building blocks for analog signal processing.

He serves as Area Editor of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE), and Editor of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

He is Associate Editor of the Circuits Systems and Signal Processing journal, and the Journal of Advanced Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Microelectronics journal, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing journal, MDPI’s Fractal & Fractional journal, and Journal of Low Power Electronics.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and, also, Member of the Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE CAS Society.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Psychalinos as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Circuit and Signal Processing" under his leadership.

The transportation sector is of the utmost importance for both today’s society and future societies, with great impacts on the economy and people’s life comfort. A profound transformation of the sector is underway in technological terms, namely with a consistently increasing trend towards transportation electrification and to autonomous vehicles.

Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” addresses the different perspectives of design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power and energy systems.

The Section welcomes papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews that are relevant and/or related to “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Electrical_Vehicles.

If you have any questions, please contact electronics@mdpi.com.

Our journal Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292) is now recruiting new Editorial Board Members for the section “Microwave and Wireless Communications” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/microwave_and_wireless_communications). For this section, we are inviting advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum. These can be related to microwave and millimeter wave communication, including radar sensors, etc., which may be fundament or application, element or system, hardware or software, methodology theory or measurement. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this section.

Subject areas of interest include, without being limited to, the following:

• General wireless communication technology;
• General microwave theory and technology, including antennae;
• General radar technology;
• Communication and radar signal processing;
• Micro/millimeter wave imaging technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave sensing technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave network technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave medical application;
• Electromagnetic scattering and propagation;
• Micro/millimeter wave measurement technology.

You are welcome to join our section Editorial Board Members and contribute to this section!

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/microwave_and_wireless_communications.

If you have any questions, please contact electronics@mdpi.com.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Lucas Lamata has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of "Quantum Electronics" in Electronics. His term started at the beginning of March 2021.

Lucas Lamata graduated in Theoretical Physics in 2003 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received his PhD with Honors in Quantum Information Theory in 2007 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having carried out his PhD research at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. Latterly, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow and a Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2011 at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. From 2011 to 2019, he worked at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, first with a Marie Curie IEF Fellowship, and subsequently with a Ramón y Cajal tenure track position and a permanent staff scientist position. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

His research interests are focused on quantum optics, quantum information, and quantum technologies, with many developments in the fields of quantum simulations, quantum computation, and quantum machine learning. As a theoretician, he has worked in proposals and their experimental realizations with several experimental groups worldwide, among other quantum platforms in trapped ions and superconducting circuits.

He is the author of more than 100 papers in indexed journals (a list of his publications can be found here). He has been an invited speaker in many international conferences in countries including the USA, Germany, the UK, China, Japan, and Australia. Regarding his refereeing and editorial experience, he is a frequent reviewer of more than 60 indexed journals, including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, and Physical Review Letters, and an Editorial Board Member for six prestigious scientific journals: Machine Learning: Science and Technology (IOP), Quantum Machine Intelligence (Springer), Electronics (MDPI), Quantum Reports (MDPI), PLOS ONE, and Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology (De Gruyter).

He has also organized several Special Issues for journals from MDPI, Wiley (Advanced Quantum Technologies), Springer, and ACTA Press.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Lamata as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Quantum Electronics" under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Flavio Canavero has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Flavio Canavero is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino. He received his diploma in Electronics Engineering in 1977 from Politecnico di Torino, and his PhD in 1986 from Georgia Institute of Technology. He works in the area of circuits and systems theory, with special interest in signal integrity and EMC design issues. To date, he has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.

During his scientific career, he has been involved in various service activities both at the level of his institution and for many international organizations. At Politecnico di Torino, he has been Director of the Electronics Department (1993–1999), Vice Rector for Organization (2001–2005), and Head of the Doctoral School (2012–2018). At the international level, he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Council for doctoral Education (CDE) of the European University Association (EUA), a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society (2012–2015), and VP of Communication Services for the same Society. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (2004–2006) and the Technical Editor of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Newsletter. Between 2005 and 2008, he was the Chair of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission E (Noise and Interference). He has been also a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee and of the IEEE Press Editorial Board. He has been the Organizer of the Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI) during 2001–2003 and 2007. He is currently a Member of the Editorial Boards for several scientific journals and a Member of the Scientific Steering Committees of several International Conferences in the field of EMC and electrical performance of interconnects and packages.

He has been Invited Visiting Professor at Okayama University (Japan), ESIGELEC (Engineering School in Rouen, France), University of Rennes and INSA (Rennes, France), University of Ghent (Belgium), University of Science and Technology of Lille (France), and University of Clermont-Ferrand (France).

For over a decade, he has been serving as Principal Investigator or Local Coordinator of several research projects supported by EU. In addition, he has been responsible for many research contracts with industrial companies globally.

Flavio Canavero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been the recipient of the prestigious Richard R. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Performance (the highest recognition of scientific merit bestowed by IEEE EMCS), and of the Honored Member Award of EMC Society (highest recognitions of service merit). He has been the recipient of IBM and Intel Research Awards; he was presented the award for the best paper contributed to the journal IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging for the year 2007, and has received several best paper awards for work presented at the following conferences: EMC Roma 1996, EMC-Zurich in Singapore 2006, EPEPS in Austin 2010 and San Jose 2013, EMC Europe in Angers (F) 2017, CEM in Paris (F) 2018, and SPI in Chambéry (F) 2019.

Some of his selected publications may be accessed at
https://iris.polito.it/browse?type=author&authority=rp19434&authority_lang=en&sort_by=2&order=DESC#.XlSGy_wRXIU

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)