To acknowledge the authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the “Electronics Best Paper Award 2021” for one article and one review published between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2020. After a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, the two chosen papers will receive awards.

Eligibility for the awards:

– One article and one review published in Electronics from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020;
– 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:

– Originality and novelty;
– Citation and download rates in 2021;
– Data Source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Prizes:

The award will consist of a certificate and 400 Swiss Francs. Each winner has the option to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics, after the normal peer-review procedure.

When will the winner be announced?

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

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to launch the 2021 Electronics Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to a young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the research field of electronics and its applications.

The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Eligibility and Requirements:

– Must have received a PhD degree within the past 10 years within the scope of Electronics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/about).
– Must be 40 years of age or under (as of 31 December 2020).

List of Documents Needed for Application:

– A detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants.
– Detailed publication list from 2020, including authors, titles, and journals.
– List of conferences that the candidate attended in 2020 as well as the research results presented.
– A scanned copy of the candidate’s doctorate certificate.
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

The Award:

– 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs).
– An offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics.
– A certificate.

The candidates should be nominated by a senior expert in the field rather than send applications themselves. The letter should highlight their achievements and contributions to the field. Additional references will be requested by the committee, if necessary.

Candidate nomination application materials should be submitted via the link (https:// www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards/submit/612). We welcome nominations for this award until 28 February 2021. The winner will be announced on the Electronics website by the end of March 2021.

Dear Colleagues,

We are accepting applications for the Electronics Travel Award, to be presented to two postdoctoral fellows to attend a conference in 2021. The award will consist of 800 CHF (Swiss francs), to partially cover the transportation costs to a conference of the applicant’s choice.

The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Requirements:

– Postdoctoral fellow within the research field of electronics;
– Will participate at an international conference in 2021 (poster or oral presentation);
– Will be asked to acknowledge the support of the journal Electronics during their presentation.

Required Documents:

– An abstract and conference details (no more than one page);
– A CV (no more than three pages), including a one-page statement from the candidate describing their research interests and a list of publications;
– A letter of recommendation from their supervisor or PI (principal investigator). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicant fulfills all of the above requirements.

Please submit your application at the following link (https://www.mdpi.com/ journal/electronics/awards/submit/611) by 28 February 2021. The winner of this award will be announced on the journal website on 31 March 2021.

To acknowledge the authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the “Electronics Best Paper Awards 2020” for one article and one review published between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. After a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, the two chosen papers will receive awards.

Eligibility for the Awards:
–– One article and one review published in Electronics from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019;
–– 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:
–– Originality and novelty;
–– Citation and download rates in 2020;
–– Data Source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Prizes:
The award will consist of a certificate and 400 Swiss Francs. Each winner has the option to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics, after the normal peer-review procedure.

When will the winner be announced?
The winners will be announced early in 2021 on the journal website.

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

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.

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

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