Author: Rui Paulo da Silva Martins

Rui Martins (IEEE Fellow”08), born in April 30, 1957, received the Bachelor, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees, as well as the Habilitation for Full-Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1980, 1985, 1992 and 2001, respectively. He has been with the DECE / IST, U. of Lisbon since October 1980. Since Oct. 1992, has been on leave from U. of Lisbon and with the DECE, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), University of Macau (UM), Macao, China, where he is a Chair-Professor since Aug. 2013. In FST, he was Dean (1994-1997), and has been UM’s Vice-Rector since Sep. 1997. From Sep. 2008 to Aug. 2018, Vice-Rector (Research) and from Sep. 2018 to Aug. 2023, Vice-Rector (Global Affairs). Within the scope of his teaching and research activities he has taught 21 bachelor and master courses and, in UM, has supervised (or co-supervised) 47 theses, Ph.D. (26) and Masters (21). Authored or Co-authored: 9 books and 12 book chapters; 50 Patents, USA (39), Taiwan (3) & China (8); 722 papers, in scientific journals (329) and in conference proceedings (393); as well as other 70 academic works, in a total of 863 publications. He created in 2003 the Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI Research Laboratory of UM, elevated in January 2011 to State Key Laboratory (SKLAB) of China (the 1st in Engineering in Macao), being its Founding Director. He was the Chair of UMTEC (UM company) from January 2009 to March 2019, supporting the incubation and creation in 2018 of Digifluidic, the first UM Spin-Off, whose CEO is a SKLAB Ph D graduate. He was also a co-founder of Chipidea Microelectronics (Macao) [later Synopsys-Macao, and now Akrostar, where the CEO is one of his Ph.D graduates] in 2001/2002. Rui Martins was Founding Chair of IEEE Macau Section (2003-2005) and IEEE Macau Joint-Chapter on Circuits And Systems (CAS) / Communications (COM) (2005-2008) [2009 World Chapter of the Year of IEEE CAS Society (CASS)], General Chair IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on CAS – APCCAS’2008, Vice-President (VP) Region 10 (Asia, Australia and Pacific) (2009-2011) and VP-World Regional Activities and Membership of IEEE CASS (2012-2013), Associate-Editor of IEEE Transactions on CAS II: Express Briefs (2010-2013), nominated Best Associate Editor (2012-2013). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Semiconductors of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since January 2021, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligent Association since October 2021. He was also member of IEEE CASS Fellow Evaluation Committee in 2013, 2014 & 2019, and was appointed as the Chair of the committee (2018) and Vice-Chair (2021 & 2022); IEEE Nominating Committee of Division I Director (CASS/EDS/SSCS) (2014); and IEEE CASS Nominations Committee (2016-2017). In addition, he was General Chair of ACM/IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference – ASP-DAC’2016, receiving the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) Outstanding Service Award in 2016, and also General Chair of the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference – A-SSCC 2019. He was Vice-President (2005-2014), President (2014-2017) and now again Vice-President (2021-2024) of the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (AULP), in September 2021, AULP nominated him as an Honorary Member. Rui Martins received 3 Macao Government decorations: the Medal of Professional Merit (Portuguese-1999); the Honorary Title of Value (Chinese-2001) and the Medal of Merit in Education (Chinese-2021). Since July 2010, he was elected unanimously, to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, as Corresponding Member (2010-2022) and Effective Member (from 2022), being the only Portuguese Academician working and living in Asia.   Pui-In Mak (IEEE Fellow’19) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Macau (UM), Macao, China, in 2006. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, and the Deputy Director at the UM Institute of Microelectronics and Interim Director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI, UM. His research interests are on analog and radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems for wireless and multidisciplinary innovations. Pui-In Mak has been a fellow of U.K. Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for contributions to engineering research, education, and services since 2018, the IEEE for contributions to radio frequency and analog circuits since 2019, and U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry since 2020. His involvements with IEEE are as follows: an Editorial Board Member of IEEE Press from 2014 to 2016, a member of Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2009 to 2011, a Senior Editor of IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems from 2014 to 2015, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits since 2018, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters since 2017, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I – Regular Papers from 2010 to 2011 and from 2014 to 2015, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Express Briefs from 2010 to 2013. He is/was the TPC Vice Co-Chair of ASP-DAC in 2016, a TPC Member of Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) from 2013 to 2016 and in 2019, European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC) from 2016 to 2017, and International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2017 to 2019). He is/was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 14 to 15 and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society from 2017 to 2018. He was the Chairman of the Distinguished Lecturer Program of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2018 to 2019. He (co)-received the DAC/ISSCC Student Paper Award in 2005, the CASS Outstanding Young Author Award in2010, the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2011, the Best Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II – Express Briefs from 2012 to 2013, the ASSCC Distinguished Design Award in 2015, and the ISSCC Silkroad Award in 2016. In 2005, he was decorated with the Honorary Title of Value for scientific merits by the Macau Government. He has been inducted as an Overseas Expert of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2018. He received the Xplorer Prize from the Tencent Foundation in 2022.