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Alberto Rodríguez-Pérez (IEEE Member, 2008), received the B.S. degree in telecommunication engineering and the PhD degree in Microelectronics from the University of Seville, Spain, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. During his PhD research, devised at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville from 2008 to 2012, he completed the design of complete System-on-Chip neural recorder interfaces with embedded data compression that got significant international impact. His Phd work, besides published in prime line journals, was awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award of the University of Sevilla. In 2013, he joined the R&D department of NXP Semiconductors in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he worked on the design of new and efficient topologies for high-speed serial interfaces transceivers for wireline communications. In 2014, he joined KDPOF S.L., a start-up company settled in Madrid, Spain, which produces high-speed optical communication systems. There, he started and leads the Analog & Mixed Signal department, in charge of developing the optoelectronics and the analog front-end for the optical transceivers. He was also an Associate Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain from 2015 to 2018. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 papers, 3 book chapters and 8 patent applications. Currently, his main research interests are in the design of high-speed optical and wirelines transceivers, covering advanced modulation and equalization techniques, high-speed ADCs, PLLs, SerDes, VCSEL and LED drivers and trans-impedance amplifiers.