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We are pleased to announce that the 1st International Electronic Conference—Futuristic Applications on Electronics, chaired by Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero, will be held at https://sciforum.net/conference/IEC2020 from 1 to 30 November 2020.

This conference aims to provide leading scientists working in the broad field of electronics with a robust common platform on which to share and discuss the latest research and to promote the advancement of this exciting and rapidly changing field. We would like to encourage submissions about current and emerging technologies, focused on the theoretical, simulation and experimental aspects of electronics.

Topics are organized into ten sessions. These sessions include, but are not limited to:

• The Electronic Circuits and Systems for Futuristic Applications Session
• The Communications and Signal Processing Session
• The Bioelectronics Session
• The Power Electronics Session
• The Optoelectronics Session
• The Microelectronics Session
• The Artificial Intelligence Session
• The Networks Session
• The Computer Science and Engineering Session
• The Systems and Control Engineering Session

IEC 2020 is a virtual conference sponsored by Electronics. Participation is free of charge for authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the proceedings of the conference. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in the Electronics conference Special Issue with a discount of 10% on the Article Processing Charge (ISSN 2079-9292; Impact Factor: 1.764 (2018) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/ECFAE2020).

This conference will establish the Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award and Best Presentation Award.

The Best Paper Award will have two winners, and each winner will receive 400 CHF and a certificate.

The Best Poster Award will have two winners, and each winner will receive 300 CHF and a certificate.

The Best Presentation Award will have one winner, and the winner will receive 200 CHF and a certificate.

IEC 2020 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having to consider travel expenses—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to attend this conference; please present your latest work to be considered.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2020
• Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2020
• Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020
• Conference: 1–30 November 2020

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting online meeting.

https://sciforum.net/conference/IEC2020

Conference Secretariat

IEC Secretary
E-Mail: iec2020@mdpi.com

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Flavio Canavero has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Circuit and Signal Processing" of 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.

Electronics, an MDPI open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications, has published more than 3000 papers since its inception in 2012. Electronics is now covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded in Web of Science and received an impact factor of 1.764 for 2018, which corresponds to a ranking of 154/265 (Q3) in the JCR category “Engineering, Electrical and Electronic”.

The current Scopus CiteScore of Electronics is 2.49, ranking Q1 in the category of “Hardware and Architecture” and Q2 in the category of “Electrical and Electronics Engineering”, “Control and Systems Engineering”, “Signal Processing”, and “Computer Networks and Communications” based on the data from SCImago.

Electronics 2020 Young Investigator Award

Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky is an Associate Professor at the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Shahar received a B.S. in computer engineering and applied physics and an MBA degree in 2009 and 2010, respectively, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 2014. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a circuit designer at Intel. From 2014 and 2015, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University. Kvatinsky is an editor of Microelectronics Journal and has been the recipient of numerous awards: the 2019 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, 2015 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, 2015 Best Paper of Computer Architecture Letters, Viterbi Fellowship, Jacobs Fellowship, ERC starting grant, the 2017 Pazy Memorial Award, the 2014 and 2017 Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Awards, 2013 Sanford Kaplan Prize for Creative Management in High Tech, 2010 Benin prize, and seven Technion excellence teaching awards. His current research is focused on circuits and architectures with emerging memory technologies and design of energy efficient architectures.

It was a difficult decision given the number of high quality applications for the award, and we would like to thank all the applicants from various fields of study for their participation, and all the Award Committee members for their efforts in evaluating the many applications. We congratulate the winner, Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky, on his accomplishments. We wish him further success in his career.

For more information about Electronics awards, please check: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by MDPI and Electronics. The award was granted to two outstanding young researchers working in thematic areas:

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. David Valiente is a postdoctoral fellow in the communications engineering department of Miguel Hernández University (UMH), within the area of electronics. He received degrees in telecommunications (Eng.), industrial and telecommunications (M.S.Eng.), teacher training (M.S.), and a Ph.D. in robotics, all of them with honours. He conducted research at Imperial College, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Polytechnic Institute of Engineering of Coimbra. His research work has laid the groundwork for the innovative creation of a realistic, robust, and feasible mapping and localization mobile robotic system, which can be exploited through a wide range of real applications in autonomous robots. Additionally, he is currently setting the foundations of a new and promising research line on advanced organic photovoltaic materials, focusing on obtaining high power conversion efficiency in solar cells.

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. Jaroslav Frnda graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 with the thesis topic “New Method for Video Quality Evaluation” at the same university. Since 2019, he has been working at the University of Zilina (Slovakia). His research includes multimedia services, QoS/QoE (video quality assessement methods), computer networks and next generation networks, and artificial intelligence.

This was certainly a difficult decision given the collection of high quality applications submitted for the awards. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a range of diverse and fascinating research topics and congratulate the winners for their accomplishment.

For more information about Electronics awards, please check: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Piero Cosseddu has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Organic Electronics” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in April 2020.

Piero Cosseddu is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy, where he currently teaches “Analog Electronics” and “Wearable and Flexible Electronics”. He also graduated in Electronic Engineering in 2003 from the University of Cagliari, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Science Engineering in 2007 before continuing as Postdoctoral Fellow at the DIEE from May 2007 to March 2010.

In 2008, he founded the company TechOnYou SRL, focused on the development of innovative systems for medical monitoring and healthcare, robotics, and biotechnologies, where he has been employed from 2012 to 2014 as Project Manager.

His research activity has mainly been focused on the field of Organic Electronics with particular attention towards the design, fabrication, and characterization of organic semiconductor-based devices on flexible plastic substrates as organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), and nonvolatile memory elements. He has been particularly involved in the development of innovative sensing systems for different applications, including as biochemical sensors, wearable electronics, and artificial skin.

Piero Cosseddu is author of more than 100 papers and book chapters of peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.

He has given more than 20 invited talks at various international conferences, schools, and other institutions.

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