Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Electronics 2024 Best Paper Award for research and review articles published in Electronics from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. One review and two research articles will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Electronics from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prize:
– One review award: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics in 2024 after peer review;
– Two research article awards: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics in 2024 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website by the end of March 2024.

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Electronics is inviting applications for the Electronics 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to two PhD students or recently qualified PhDs that have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero.

Eligibility and Requirements

• The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
• The PhD thesis must be their original work;
• The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents

• An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
• A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
• The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
• An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
• A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria

• Quality of resume and publications;
• Relevance of the candidate and research description;
• Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
• Strength of the recommendation letter;
• Anticipated academic potential;
• Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes

• Bonus (CHF 800);
• Certificate;
• Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Electronics after peer review before the end of 202

The application deadline is 31 January 2024. The winners will be announced on the Electronics website by the end of March 2024.

Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Electronics is now inviting nominations for the Electronics 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of electronics. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero.

The Prize
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper, as a corresponding author, free of charge in Electronics in 2023, following peer review;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of electronics;
– Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule
– Open for nominations: 1 December 2022;
– Nominations deadline: 30 September 2023;
– Winner announcement: end of November 2023.

How to Submit Nominations?
The nominations must be submitted online.

Contact
Mr. Charlie Tian
Marketing Specialist
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Electronics will be granting the Travel Award to two junior scientists. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Electronics Editorial Board.

This award provides financial support for the winners to attend an international conference in the field of electronics to be held in 2023, in order to hold a presentation, present a poster, or both.

Candidate Requirements
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students.
– Plans to attend an international conference in 2023 (oral presentation or poster).

Required Application Documents
– Information of the conference that the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted.
– Curriculum vitae and list of publications.
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words).
– Letter of recommendation from the supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status as a postdoctoral fellow/PhD student.

The winners (two awardees) will each be awarded CHF 800 and a certificate.

Please submit your applications for the Electronics 2023 Travel Award online by 30 April 2023. Prizes will be awarded at the end of June 2023 and announced on the Electronics website.

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Electronics from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

One Review:
Evaluating the Quality of Machine Learning Explanations: A Survey on Methods and Metrics
By Jianlong Zhou, Amir H. Gandomi, Fang Chen and Andreas Holzinger
Electronics 2021, 10(5), 593; doi:10.3390/electronics10050593

Two Articles:
A Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Kiwifruit Defects Based on YOLOv5
By Jia Yao, Jiaming Qi, Jie Zhang, Hongmin Shao, Jia Yang and Xin Li
Electronics 2021, 10(14), 1711; doi:10.3390/electronics10141711

Automated Workers’ Ergonomic Risk Assessment in Manual Material Handling Using sEMG Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning
By Srimantha E. Mudiyanselage, Phuong Hoang Dat Nguyen, Mohammad Sadra Rajabi and Reza Akhavian
Electronics 2021, 10(20), 2558; doi:10.3390/electronics10202558

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics before the end of December 2023.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Electronics.

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the Electronics 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:
“An Innovative Data-Driven Reliability Life Cycle for Complex Systems” by Dr. Gabriele Patrizi, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Dr. Gabriele Patrizi will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics in 2023.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment. We would also like to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

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

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Houqiang Fu.

Dr. Houqiang Fu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. Dr. Houqiang Fu’s research interests are wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors, devices, and systems, including power electronics and ICs, HEMTs, extreme-environment devices, optoelectronics, photonics, MOCVD growth, and reliability and failure analysis. Dr. Houqiang Fu received his PhD in 2019 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been collectively cited more than 1600 times (Hirsch index of 25). Dr. Houqiang Fu has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including ISU Regents Innovation Fund Award, ASU Palais Outstanding Doctoral Award, and ASU Outstanding Research Award. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Houqiang Fu for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Houqiang Fu will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of June 2023 in Electronics after peer-review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

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

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2022 Travel Award. The award has been granted to: Dr. Gia Quoc Bao Tran, a PhD student at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Université PSL, France; and Dr. Nishu Gupta, a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

The winners will each be awarded 800 CHF and a certificate.

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

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Electronics from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero, have been selected.

One review:
Challenges and Applications of Emerging Nonvolatile Memory Devices 
By Writam Banerjee
Electronics 2020, 9(6), 1029; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9061029

One research article:
Sentiment Analysis Based on Deep Learning: A Comparative Study
By Nhan Cach Dang, María N. Moreno-García, and Fernando De la Prieta
Electronics 2020, 9(3), 483; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9030483

Each Winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 400 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Electronics and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

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

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the “Electronics 2021 Best Paper Award for Anniversary Special Issues”.

The awards have been granted to:

Research article 1:

Towards Human Stress and Activity Recognition: A Review and a First Approach Based on Low-Cost Wearables
By Juan Antonio Castro-García, Alberto Jesús Molina-Cantero, Isabel María Gómez-González, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo and Manuel Merino-Monge
Electronics 2022, 11(1), 155; doi:10.3390/electronics11010155
This article belongs to the Special Issue “10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Computer Science & Engineering”.

Research article 2:

Semi-Automatic Guidance vs. Manual Guidance in Agriculture: A Comparison of Work Performance in Wheat Sowing
By Antonio Scarfone, Rodolfo Picchio, Angelo del Giudice, Francesco Latterini, Paolo Mattei, Enrico Santangelo and Alberto Assirelli
Electronics 2021, 10(7), 825; doi:10.3390/electronics10070825
This article belongs to the Special Issue “10th Anniversary of Electronics: New Advances in Systems and Control Engineering”.

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive 500 CHF, a certificate, and the chance to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics in 2022, after the normal peer review procedure.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the aforementioned exceptional papers for
their contributions to Electronics, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

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

Dear Colleagues,

To celebrate and highlight the achievements of women in the research area of electronics, Electronics is pleased to announce that the “Electronics 2021 Best Paper Award for Women” will be launched and granted to one best paper published in the “Women in Electronics” Special Issue. The paper will be selected after thorough evaluation by the Journal Award Committee.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Open to all career levels;
– ONLY submissions in “Women in Electronics” will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the
following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Relevance to the journal’s field;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citation and download rates by 28 February 2022.

Prizes:
– 500 Swiss Francs;
– A certificate;
– An opportunity for the winner to publish her next submission in Electronics
free of charge in 2022.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2022.

If you want to know more details about the Special Issue and submit your paper, please see this link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/women_electronics

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, it is my pleasure to announce the winner of the Electronics 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize was aimed to be awarded to a PhD student who has produced a highly anticipated academic potential thesis.

The award has been granted to:

“Low Dose Analytical Electron Microscopy of Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices”

By Felix Utama Kosasih, University of Cambridge, UK

The winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and an offer to publish a featured paper in Electronics with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2022.

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I would like to congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional thesis for their contributions to Electronics, and thank the award committee for voting and helping with this award.

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

Dear Colleagues,

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.

Dr. 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)

Dr. 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

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Amir H. Gandomi.

Dr. Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr. Gandomi’s research interests are in artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, genetic programming, evolutionary computation, and their applications in smarts cities and systems. Dr. Gandomi received his PhD in 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been collectively cited more than 20,000 times (Hirsch index of 66). He is clearly a rising star in the field of Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. Despite his young age, Dr. Gandomi has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for AUD 400,000, the BEACON distinguished research fellowship for USD 120,000, and the Highly Cited Researcher Award for four consecutive years, 2017 to 2020. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gandomi for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Amir H. Gandomi will receive an honorarium of CHF 1800, a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics after peer review.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Electronics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Electronics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Prof. Dr. Byeong Yong Kong
Affiliation: Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, Korea
Research Interest: VLSI signal processing; digital systems; system on chip (SoC); wireless communications

Prof. Emilio Matricciani
Affiliation: Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Research Interest: satellite communication; deep-space communication; orbits; propagation; fade countermeasures; mobile and fixed users

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli
Affiliation: Institute of Product and Process Innovation, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany
Research Interest: control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engines control; signal processing; wavelets; kalman filter; energy control

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2020 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2019 in Electronics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Journal’s Award Committee, have been selected.

Article

Assessment of Dual Frequency GNSS Observations from a Xiaomi Mi 8 Android Smartphone and Positioning Performance Analysis 
By Umberto Robustelli, Valerio Baiocchi and Giovanni Pugliano
Electronics 2019, 8(1), 91.

Review

A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning Theory and Architectures
By Md Zahangir Alom, Tarek M. Taha, Chris Yakopcic, Stefan Westberg, Paheding Sidike, Mst Shamima Nasrin, Mahmudul Hasan, Brian C. Van Essen, Abdul A. S. Awwal and Vijayan K. Asari
Electronics 2019, 8(3), 292.

The authors will receive an award of 400 CHF, a certificate and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer review procedure. We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Electronics and the scientific literature. We warmly congratulate the winners.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2020 Electronics Travel Award. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs and a certificate for each winner. The awards have been granted to:

Dr. David Valiente, a post-doc fellow at Miguel Hernández University (UMH), Spain. His research work has laid the groundwork for the innovative creation of a realistic, robust, and feasible mapping and localization mobile robotic system. He plans to present his work at the Technology, Teaching and Learning of Electronics Conference 2020, Porto, Portugal.

Dr. Jaroslav Frnda, a post-doc fellow at University of Zilina (Slovakia). His research includes multimedia services, QoS/QoE (video quality assessement methods), computer networks and next generation networks, and artificial intelligence. He plans to present his work at the 43rd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Milan, Italy.

Electronics is proud to support these young researchers working in the field of electronics, and wish them further success in their careers. We are grateful to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to support Electronics in the future.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Department of Computer Science,
University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292; CODEN: ELECGJ) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications published monthly online by MDPI. The journal is covered by leading indexing services including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. The Impact Factor for 2018 is 1.764. For further details, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 Electronics Young Investigator Award is Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky.

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 in 2009 and 2010, respectively, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. degree 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.

Please join us in congratulating Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky on receiving this award, and for his outstanding achievements. As the awardee, Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky will receive an honorarium of 1800 CHF and an engraved trophy.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Department of Computer Science,
University of Central Florida,
Orlando, USA

Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292; CODEN: ELECGJ) is an international peerreviewed open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications published monthly online by MDPI. The journal is covered by leading indexing services, including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. The Impact Factor for 2018 is 1.764. For further details, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics.

The Electronics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Electronics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “Electronics 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019 (in alphabetical order by surname):

Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University, USA

Hsin-Jang Shieh
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Editor-in-Chief
University of Central Florida, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2019 Travel Award sponsored by Electronics.

The Awards were granted to Dr. Raheleh Jafari, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Agder Grimstad, Norway, and Dr. Theofanis Raptis, a postdoctoral fellow at The National Research Council (CNR), Italy. The awards consist of 800 Swiss Frances each to support attendance at any academic conference in 2019.

Dr. Raheleh Jafari’s current research interests include fuzzy logic, fuzzy equations, neural networks, artificial intelligence, fuzzy control, machine learning, stability analysis, system identification, and nonlinear system modeling.

The research interests of Dr. Theofanis Raptis include data distribution in industrial networks, distributed algorithms for wirelessly powered networks, and experimentation with IoT testbeds and platforms.

Electronics is proud to support these young researchers working in the field of electronics, and wish them further success in their careers. We are grateful to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to pay attention to Electronics in the future.

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Editor-in-Chief

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Electronics Young Investigator Award 2019, Dr. Juan C. Vasquez, a Professor at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University.

Over the last 10 years, Prof. Vasquez has published over 180 papers in international top-tier journals and over 190 papers in international conferences on Microgrids research. His key contributions are based on control, operation, energy management, and deployment of AC–DC Microgrids and Energy Internet. He has been referenced over 14,681 times, and some of his articles have been cited more than 200 times, making a huge impact and acquiring high visibility in Microgrid and smart-grid research communities. Thanks to these achievements, he was recognized by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Dr. Vasquez was selected among 18 AAU researchers to receive funding through an exclusive young talent management program, established as part of the initiative “Knowledge for the World”, for his project “The Energy Internet—Integrating Internet of Things into the Smart Grid”. Professor Vasquez is responsible of the AC Microgrid laboratory, the DC Microgrid Laboratory, and a newly established IoT Demonstration Microgrid Laboratory at the Department of Energy Technology, AAU. These proof-ofconcept laboratories constitute the basis for research and teaching inspired by Project-Based Learning (PBL) in the microgrids area, recognized worldwide.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Juan C. Vasquez for a well-deserved prize.

The Electronics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Electronics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

The following referees have been selected to receive the “Electronics 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2018 (in alphabetical order by surname):

Javier Roldán Pérez, IMDEA Energy Institute, Spain
Poongundran Selvaprabhu, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Emanuele Torti, University of PaviaVia Ferrata, Italy

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Editor-in-Chief
University of Central Florida, USA

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Travel Awards sponsored by Electronics.

The awards were granted to Mr. Spyridon-Nektarios Daskalakis, Ph.D. students of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh UK, and Dr. Yao-Feng Chang, a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. The awards consist of 800 Swiss Francs each to support attendance at any academic conference in 2018.

Mr. Spyridon-Nektarios Daskalakis’s current research interests include low-cost wireless sensor networks and RF energy harvesting. In particular, he focuses on backscatter radio communication, batteryless sensors, PCB design, low-cost software-defined radio, environmental sensing and RF energy harvesting.

Dr. Yao-Feng Chang focuses on three topics: (1) SiOx- and SiNx-based ReRAM fabrication, characterization, and mechanism understanding. (2) Stateful Boolean logic and synaptic Post-Moore computing, and bio-inspiration biomimetic systems in electronic devices. (3) Selector integration for large-scale low-power array design.

Electronics is proud to support these young researchers working in the field of electronics and wish them further success in their careers. We are grateful to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to pay attention to Electronics in the future.

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

The Electronics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to Electronics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained The following referee has been selected to receive “Electronics 2017 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of the reviews in 2017:

•Gia Khanh Tran, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni
Editor-in-Chief of Electronics
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA