Advanced Circuits and Systems: From Theory to Emerging Applications

Costas Psychalinos received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and electronics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher at the VLSI Design Laboratory, University of Patras. From 1996 to 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. From 2000 to 2004 he served as Assistant Professor at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. From 2004 he served as faculty member at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece and, currently, he is full Professor. His research area is the development of CMOS analog integrated circuits, including fractional-order circuits and systems, continuous and discrete-time analog filters, amplifiers, and low voltage/low power building blocks for analog signal processing. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a Member of the Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE CAS Society, and Chair of the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter.

Tomas Noulis is an academic and semiconductor industry expert (INTEL Corp., INFINEON AG, HELIC Inc. (acquired by ANSYS)) with more than 12 years of international experience in design system development, analog/RFMS circuit design, design methodology, and international project management. He holds a B.Sc. degree in physics, MSc. degree in electronics engineering, and a Ph.D. from Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki in collaboration with LAAS, Toulouse-France. He has participated in multiple mobile communications and power automotive product development integrated circuit design projects in academia and in the industry sector and he has extensive tape out experience in advanced semiconductor technologies from FinFET and RFCMOS to CMOS, power automotive BCD and bipolar processes. Thomas Noulis is the main author of more than 60 publications in international journal and conferences, he holds one European patent, and is the editor of 2 books. His research interests are focused on design system development, design cycle speed up, low noise circuit design, signal and power integrity, instrumentation, and sensor interfaces. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Physics Dept. of Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter.

Georgia Tsirimokou received her B.Sc. in physics, M.Sc. in electronics and communications, and Ph.D. in analog integrated circuit design from the University of Patras in 2011, 2013, and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2023 she worked as IC designer in the industry. From 2023 she served as Assistant Professor at the VLSI Systems and Computer Architecture Laboratory, Computer and Informatics Engineering Department, at the University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. Her research interests focus on the development of CMOS analog integrated circuits, including fractional-order circuits and systems, continuous-time and discrete-time filters, and low-voltage power supply circuits for biomedical applications. Georgia Tsirimokou has been ranked as one of the top 2% researchers in the world, in the sub-field electrical and electronics engineering, in the years 2020-2025 in the Stanford-Elsevier publicly available database. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. She serves as Secretary of the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter.

Alkis A. Hatzopoulos (Chatzopoulos) received his degree in physics (with honors), his master's degree in electronics and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980, 1983 and 1989, respectively. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1981, where he is now a full professor. In 2002 he was elected as the Director of the Electronics Laboratory of the ECE Dept. His research interests include modelling, design and testing of integrated circuits and systems (analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency), three dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs), electronic communication circuits, thin-film transistors, instrumentation electronics, bioelectronics systems, space electronics. He is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and 3 book chapters in international textbooks. He has been also granted a European and American patent. He is IEEE Senior Member and Member of the Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE CAS Society, and Treasurer of the IEEE Greece CASS-SSCS joint Chapter.