Young Investigator Award

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.

 

Electronics 2020 Young Investigator Award

 

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019

Winner

Kai-Da Xu

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman

Politecnico di Torino

Prof. giambattista gruosso

Politecnico di Milano

Dr. Xiongfeng Ma

Tsinghua Unviersity

Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis

University of Piraeus

Winner

Houqiang Fu

Iowa State University

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman

Politecnico di Torino

Dr. Xiongfeng Ma

Tsinghua Unviersity

Prof. Boris Andrievsky

Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Elias Stathatos

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of the The Peloponnese

Prof. Dr. Nikolay Hinov

Technical University of Sofia

Prof. Dr. Kiat Seng Yeo

Winner

Amir H. Gandomi

Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero Chairman

Politecnico di Torino

Prof. Lucas Lamata

Universidad de Sevilla

Dr. Felix Sunjoo Kim

Prof. Dr. Valentina Emilia Balas

Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad

Prof. Dr. Yoichi Hayashi

Meiji University, Dept. Computer Science, Head of AI Lab.

Prof. Yosef Pinhasi

Ariel University

Prof. Erich Leitgeb

TU Graz

Prof. Dr. Jaime Lloret

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Prof. Dongkyun Kim

Winner

Shahar Kvatinsky

Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Technion

Winner

Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero

Aalborg University

Juan Carlos Vasquez Quintero

Aalborg University