Speakers - SERESSA 2024

MARTÍN ALURRALDE

National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), Argentina

Martín Alurralde studied Physics and earned his PhD at the Balseiro Institute. He has international research experience, having worked for three years at the Paul Scherrer Institute and two years at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, both in Switzerland. He had work in material characterization using ion irradiation at low and high energy (AES, SIMS, ISS, RNRA, ERDA, RBS). Now, his research interests focus on the radiation effects on materials, particularly semiconductor devices.

ALMUDENA LINDOSO

University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), Spain

Almudena Lindoso (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electric, electronic and automation engineering from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, in 2009. Since 2003, she has been a Professor and Researcher with the Electronic Technology Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She has co-authored over 80 publications in journals and conferences. Her research interests include hardware acceleration, image processing, and fault tolerance, and also the adaptation in terms of reliability of high-performance commercial circuits for aerospace applications.

ROBERTO CIBILS

University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

Roberto Cibils obtained his Electronic Engineering degree from UTN-FRM in 1978, and pursued a career as a scientific researcher through scholarships from the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET), specializing in Solid State Physics. In 1986 he started working in the nuclear industry where he participated in the development of electronic systems for different nuclear power plants in Argentina; as well as research reactors for Egypt (ETRR-2) and Australia (Opal). At the same time, he began working on space projects, including the development of the SAC-C scientific satellite, the earth observation series of SAOCOM satellites and ARSAT1/ARSAT2 geostationary communication satellites. He is currently a professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and an independent consultant for the use of electronic materials in the space environment.

TIAGO BALEN

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Tiago Roberto Balen received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UFRGS. From 2019 to 2023, he served as head of the Graduate Program in Microelectronics (PGMICRO) in this university. His research interests encompass analog and mixed-signal testing, built-in self-test, programmable analog devices, fault-tolerant circuits, and the effects of radiation on electronic systems. He has published over 70 papers on these topics in prominent conferences and journals, earning five «Best Paper Awards» for his contributions.

JOSÉ LIPOVETZKY

National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) / National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) / Balseiro Institute, Argentina

José Lipovetzky received his degree in Electronic Engineering and PhD in Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires in 2005 and 2010 respectively. Between 2010 and 2013 hee worked as a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, and since 2014 at Centro Atómico Bariloche, CNEA. Since 2015 he is professor at the Balseiro Institute, National University of Cuyo. His topics of interest are ionizing radiation effects on CMOS circuits, radiation detection using different integrated devices and CMOS image sensors.

HANS-JUERGEN SEDLMAYR

Deustches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany

Hans-Juergen Sedlmayr received his Dipl.-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Science Munich in 1992. Since 2001, he has been with the German Aerospace Center, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. His main research focus is in the field of radiation testing of electric and electronics parts and embedded software development inside robots for terrestrial and space applications. He contributed to multiple Space Missions; within the ongoing MMX and upcoming EROSS-IOD mission, he is responsible for Quality Assurance of the locomotion subsystem (MMX) or the robotic arm (EROSS-IOD).

FELIX PALUMBO

Allegro Microsystems – National Technological University Buenos Aires Regional Faculty (UTN-FRBA), Argentina

Felix Palumbo received his MSc. (2000) and PhD (2005) degrees in physics from University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He is an active researcher in the field of semiconductor device physics and reliability, transport in mesoscopic systems and oxide-semiconductor interfaces with experience in the academy and industry. From 2006 to 2023, has been a researcher at the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET). He has collaboration with companies such as IBM-Fishkill-USA, Tower Jazz-Israel, SOITEC-France, and he is also a frequent scientific visitor of academic institutions as IMM-CNR-Italy, the IMEP-LAHC Lab.-Minatec site, Grenoble-France, the Autonomous University of Barcelona-Spain, and the Israel Institute of Technology-Technion. He is Principal Device Engineer at Allegro Microsystems, and full professor at UTN in Buenos Aires. His current research interests are in the field of reliability of innovative devices, BCD technology and radiation effects on semiconductors devices.

JUAN CLEMENTE

Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain

Juan A. Clemente received his degree in computer science and his Ph.D. degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Computer Architecture Department, UCM, and a Researcher with the GHADIR Research Group. His research interests include the study of single-event effects tolerance of digital circuits, especially commercial-off-the-shelf memories, and their use in harsh environments, such as space. For conducting this research, he collaborates with the TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble-Alpes University, Grenoble, France, and with the ONERA (the French Aerospace Lab), Toulouse, France.

RICARDO AUGUSTO DA LUZ REIS

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Ricardo Reis received an EE degree from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from INPG, France. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Montpellier. Full professor at UFRGS. Main research includes physical design automation, MPSoC and fault tolerant systems. More than 700 publications. He received the 2015 IEEE CASS Meritorious Service Award. Founder of conferences like SBCCI and LASCAS, a CASS Flagship Conference. Member of CASS DLP Program (2014/2015). Member of IEEE CASS BoG and IEEE CEDA BoG. Member of the IEEE IoT Initiative Activity Board. Chair of IEEE CASS SiG on IoT. Ricardo received the IFIP Fellow Award 2021 and the ACM/ISPD Lifetime Achievement Award 2022.

OMAR OSENDA

Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing (FAMAF) / National University of Cordoba (UNC), Argentina

Omar Osenda has a degree and a PhD in Physics, both from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). He is president of the Argentine Physics Association (AFA) and works as Full Professor and Independent Researcher at CONICET. He is in charge of the Condensed Matter Theory Group of the Physics Section of the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computer Science (FaMAF), where he has directed 15 end-of-degree theses and four PhD theses. His work in Quantum Mechanics focuses on Quantum Information and the study of applications of Quantum Mechanics to semiconductor nanodevices.

ALBERTO MARTÍN-ORTEGA

Spain

Dr. Alberto Martín-Ortega is a computer engineer and holds a PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunications. He has a strong technical background in satellite avionics and payload computers for critical systems. During his career, he has participated in over 10 space missions, targeting from Earth orbit satellites to Deep Space missions and planetary exploration rovers. His experience ranges from technical design leadership to systems engineering and project management.

LORENA ANGHEL

INP de Grenoble – UGA, France

Lorena Anghel got her PhD in 2000 from Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management (INPG). Currently she is Full Professor at INPG in Microelectronics and Embedded Systems Engineering and member of the research staff of SPINTEC Laboratory. Her research interests include design and validation of reliable digital integrated circuits, hardware/software tolerant design, aging induced reliability issues, defects and variation tolerance for emerging technologies, with a particular focus on design of logic and memory circuits based on spintronic device. Since 2019 she has been holding an Excellence Chair position at the AI Multi-Disciplinary Institute in Grenoble on the topic of “Non Volatile Emerging based Spiking Neural Network”. She has actively participated in several European Projects as well as French national projects ANR, serving as a work package leader or scientific coordinator. Dr. Anghel has held various positions of responsibility in organizing numerous major conferences and symposiums related to her research domains. Dr. Anghel has been recipient of 5 Best Paper Awards and one Outstanding Paper Award. She has published more than 250 publications in per-review international conferences and symposia. She is currently Vice President for Research and Scientific Council for Grenoble INP – University of Grenoble Alpes.

LUCA STERPONE

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Luca Sterpone received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, where he is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer and Control Engineering where he is leading the Aerospace, Safety and Computing Lab asaclab.polito.it . He has authored more than 240 papers and he received several awards for his research activities. His current research interests include reconfigurable computing, computer-aided design algorithms, fault tolerance architectures, and radiation effects on components and systems.

SUNG CHUNG

QRT Inc., Korea

A lifetime member of IEEE since 2018, Sung received his bachelor’s degree from Sungkyunkwan University in 1978 and his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in 1984. After working at Apple Computer for 5 years, he worked at Cisco Systems for 15 and a half years. As a leader in single event upset (SEU) technology, he developed the industry’s first enterprise soft error evaluation and mitigation technology. He also developed and applied accelerated neutron evaluation, verification process, and mitigation design technology for semiconductor devices and systems ranging from memory to ASIC and systems. He worked as the vice president of R&D at SynTest Inc., an EDA company, for about a year. He founded Eigenix Inc. in 2009, developing soft error evaluation software using error injection technology for reliable systems for 3 years and collaborating with leading semiconductor and EDA companies. From 2013 to 2016, as part of the Korean government’s first overseas brain-scouting program, he was invited as a research professor at Hanyang University, where he participated in the development of SiP/TSV evaluation technology and SoC reliability research and lectures by SEU. Since May 2017, he has worked at QRT Inc., focusing on developing single-event effect (SEE) technology and a soft error evaluation system. He holds 18 US and Korean patents. He has participated in SERESSA for many years and was the local chair during the SERESSA Ansan (South Korea) Edition.

ALAIN MICHEZ

Delphea, France

Alain Michez received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Montpellier (France). He has dedicated his entire career to modeling, and has developed the TCAD tool ECORCE. He specializes in modeling the effects of radiation on electronic components. He is a teacher-researcher at the University of Montpellier and technical Manager of the company Delphea.

DALE MCMORROW

Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Dale McMorrow received the Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, in 1985. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto he joined the technical staff at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 1988, and presently is head of the Photophysics and Radiation Effects Section in the Electronics Science and Technology Division. His current research interests include the development, characterization and application of laser-based methodologies for simulating single-event phenomena in microelectronic devices and complex integrated circuits. Recent emphasis has been on characterization of the physical mechanisms responsible for the single-event response of III-V semiconductor devices, and the development of two-photon absorption as a tool for interrogating single-event phenomena. He has authored over 250 papers in refereed journals and has served as Technical Chair for the Single-Event Effects Symposium, and as session chair for the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), the Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) Conference, and the Single-Event Effects Symposium. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America.

JUAN FRAIRE

INRIA – CONICET, Argentina

Juan A. Fraire is a researcher at INRIA (France) and a guest professor at CONICET-UNC (Argentina) and Saarland University (Germany). Core topics of his interest are near-Earth and deep-space networking and informatics, adding up to more than 100 published papers in international journals and leading conferences. Juan is the co-founder and chair of the Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT) and participates in diverse joint projects with space agencies (e.g., NASA, ESA, CONAE) and companies in the space sector (e.g., D3TN, Skyloom).

PABLO FERREYRA

Faculty of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences (FCEFyN) – Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing (FAMAF), National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina

Pablo Ferreyra received his Ph.D. degree from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, (UNC) in 2007. He is a Senior Lecturer Professor in the Electronic Department at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales (FCEFyN) and an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Career at the Facultad de Matemática Astronomía, Física y Computación (FAMAF), both belonging to the UNC. His main research activities are developed at the Laboratorio de Circuitos y Sistemas Robustos (LCSR) (FCEFyN) and at the Grupo de Desarrollo Electrónico e Instrumental (GDEI) (FAMAF). His research interests include Fault Tolerance in High Performance Distributed Computing Systems for Space Applications. In particular the development of Systems-On-Chip-Nodes optimized for Cube-Sats-networks is currently his main research activity. For conducting his research, he collaborates with the Instituto Gulich, (IG) that belongs both to the UNC and to the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), the National Space Agency of Argentina.

CHAIRMEN

RAOUL VELAZCO

Université Joseph Fourier (UJF), France

Dr. Raoul Velazco got the PhD and the Docteur ès Sciences in Computer Sciences in 1982 and 1990 respectively, both from INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble). With the CNRS (French Research Agency) since 1984, where he is now Director of Researches Emeritus, he was until 2019 the coleader of the RIS (Robust Integrated circuits and Systems) research group at TIMA laboratory (Grenoble). His main research activities focused the study of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, the design hardening techniques and the development and exploitation of experiments devoted to operate on board satellites.

CARLOS BARRIENTOS

Gulich Institute, National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE), Argentina

Carlos Barrientos received an engineering degree from Instituto Balseiro (Argentina) and a Master of Science from Massachussets Institute of Technology MIT (USA). He participated in the design of SAC-A and SAC-C missions, working for INVAP. Since 2012 he works for CONAE at Córdoba Space Center (CETT), where he is involved as a System Engineer in different space-related projects and training activities. Currently, he is the Director of a Master Program in Space Systems and Head of UFS, a development unit focused on developing Electro-Optical devices for space-applications. His main topic of interests are space systems, model-based system engineering and thermal analysis.

TECHNICAL CHAIRMEN

JUAN CLEMENTE

Complutense University of Madrid(UCM), Spain

PABLO FERREYRA

Faculty of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences (FCEFyN) – Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing (FAMAF), National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina