Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Electronics 2022 Best Paper Awards” for research and review articles published in Electronics from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. One review and one research article will receive an award each. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee, and the winners will be announced in early 2022.

Eligibility for the awards:

– Papers 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 (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 in 2021.

Prizes:

– One review award: 400 CHF and a chance to publish a paper in Electronics in 2022;
– One research article award: 400 CHF and a chance to publish a paper in Electronics in 2022.
– Each winner will also receive a certificate.
The winners will be announced on the journal website in early 2022.

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

In 2021, Electronics will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since MDPI launched the popular journal back in 2012, Electronics has published more than 4000 papers from more than 17,000 authors.

In recognition of our authors’ continued support, Electronics is pleased to announce that the “Electronics 2021 Best Paper Awards for Anniversary Special Issues” will be launched and granted to two best papers published in the “Anniversary Special Issues”. The papers will be selected after thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee.

Eligibility for the awards:
– Open to all career levels;
– ONLY submissions in Anniversary Special Issues 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 for each winner;
– A certificate;
– An offer to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics in 2022, after the normal peer review procedure.

Click here to access all of Anniversary Special Issues.

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

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

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,

The journal Electronics (MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2079-9292, mdpi.com/journal/electronics) is inviting applications for the Electronics 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a Ph.D. student who is about to graduate or participate in the graduation thesis. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Electronics Editorial Board.

Eligibility Requirements:
a. The candidate must be a Ph.D. student who is going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses.
b. The PhD thesis must be original work.
c. The PhD thesis must be defended between 1 March, 2021 and 31 December, 2021.
d. Applicants are required to submit the following documents:
   – An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English, of around 3000 words;
   – A letter from 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.

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 (800 CHF);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish a featured paper in Electronics with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2022.

How to apply?
– Please submit your application online.

The application deadline is 31 December 2021. The winner will be announced on the Electronics website by the end of February 2022.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

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,

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 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,

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,

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