**About the Editors**

#### **Jorge Portilla**

Jorge Portilla received his M.Sc. in Physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 2003, and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), ´ Spain, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at UPM and researcher within the Centro de Electronica Industrial, belonging to the UPM. His research interests are focused on Wireless ´ Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Digital Embedded Systems and Reconfigurable FPGA-based embedded systems. He has participated in more than 30 funded research projects, including European and national funded projects, as well as private industry funded projects, mainly related to WSN and IoT. He was a visiting researcher with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu Taiwan, in 2008 and with the National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taiwan, in 2018. He has authored numerous publications in prestigious international conferences and journals with good impact factors.

#### **Andres Otero**

Andres Otero received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University ´ of Vigo, where he graduated with honors in 2007. He received his Master of Research and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Electronics from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), in 2009 and ´ 2014, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor of electronics with the UPM, as well as a researcher in the Centro de Electronica Industrial (CEI). His current research interests are focused on ´ Embedded System Design, Reconfigurable Systems on FPGAs, Evolvable Hardware and Embedded Machine Learning. Over recent years, he has been involved in different research projects in these areas, and he is the author of more than 30 papers published in international conferences and journals. He has served as a program committee member of different international conferences in the field of reconfigurable systems, such as FPL, SAMOS, ReConFig, DASIP and ReCoSoC.

#### **Gabriel Mujica**

Gabriel Mujica received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Electronics engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and he is an Assistant Professor and Research Member in the Center of ´ Industrial Electronics, belonging to UPM, where he is mainly involved in the areas of Internet of Things, Networked Embedded Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). He has participated in different national and European research projects (including Horizon 2020 projects), related to the development and optimization of WSN under real deployment contexts. He has authored more than 30 contributions in high-impact international conferences and journals. He has collaborated in the organization of research tutorials, seminars, and acted as a reviewer and guest editor in international conferences and indexed journals. Moreover, his visiting research stay at Trinity College Dublin strengthened the vision and applicability of IoT technologies in the research center for smart and sustainable cities.
