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Dr. Andrés Rodríguez is an Associate Professor at ‘Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)’ since 1998. He received in 1997 the Doctorate Award of the UPM and the Best PhD Thesis on Basic Technologies Award of the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers. He started his career as intern at ‘AT&T Microelectrónica de España’ (1990-91) and has subsequently developed his research activity at the ‘E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’, first as research fellow and then, since 1993, as member of the teaching and research staff of the Departments of Electronic Technology (until 2014) and Electronic Engineering (since 2014). His teaching duties at the Telecommunications Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Degrees of the UPM have been related with theory and practice of Electronic Circuits and Systems. He received in 1998 an Award on Innovation in Education from the ‘Fundación General de la UPM’ for his contributions to the updating and modernization of the teaching Laboratories of the Department.
Dr. Rodríguez is currently the Head of the Connectivity Group of the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Information Processing and Telecommunications Center of the UPM. The research activity of this Group, formed by five researchers, focuses on the Internet of Things, Smart Sensors, Embedded Systems, Cloud and Edge Computing and Systems Integration, topics with applications in different issues related to SmartCities like Urban Mobility, Transportation or Social Services.
His research areas of interest included initially silicon processing and related technologies for VLSI fabrication and nanoelectronics. He has a deep knowledge and practical expertise in all the processes involved in silicon technology (silicon oxidation, growth and deposition of dielectrics –silicon oxide, silicon nitride, hafnium oxide-, dopant diffusion and ion implantation, Rapid Thermal Annealing, homo and heteroepitaxy, photolithography, metallization and etching). He is also used to a large number of techniques for materials and technologies characterization and diagnosis (Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry - ion channeling-, Transmission Electron Microscopy, high resolution X-ray diffractometry, Fourier-Transform infrared and Raman spectroscopies among others), as well as the main methods for electron devices characterization (I-V and C-V measurements, Hall effect, individualization of nanowires for nanoscale devices).
Dr. Rodríguez has worked on test structures for metal-semiconductor ohmic contacts, SiGe/Si strained layer heteroepitaxy for high speed MOS transistors, iridium silicides for far infrared detectors, poly-SiGe/glass Thin Film Transistors for flexible electronics, Si, SiGe and Ge nanoparticles embedded in a dielectric matrix for luminescence applications, and SiGe nanowires and SiGe/Si nanowire heterostructures for nanoscale devices. Research activities developed in other Laboratories included Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition of strained SiGe layers on Si at the CNET (France Télécom) in Meylan, France and SiGe doping, dopant activation and Hall effect measurements at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK.
Dr. Rodríguez has been main researcher or member of the team of 16 research projects funded by the Spanish Government (Plan Nacional, Acciones Integradas, Proyectos Semilla) and other 5 projects or contracts with different companies and institutions. He is currently the Principal Researcher of the UPM Project “Ciudades Inteligentes”, establishing a collaboration with the Human-Centered Intelligent Cities Research Institute (HCICRI) of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria of Madrid.
As the outcome of these research projects, Dr. Rodríguez has coauthored 50 papers in scientific journals listed in the SCI of the JCR and 35 papers in books and international conference proceedings, in all cases with peer-review.
His past and current Management responsibilities include:
• Academic Coordinator of the Master in Electronic Systems Engineering of the UPM (2014-2020), a Program focused mainly on Embedded Systems, sensors, FPGAs and the Internet of Things.
• Secretary (2014-2022) and Head (2022-) of the Academic Committee of the Doctorate Program in Electronic Systems Engineering of the UPM, a Program with a great variety of lines of research, including Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Biomedical Imaging, Electronic Materials and Devices…
• Deputy Director of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the UPM (2014-2018).
• Academic Secretary of the Department of Electronic Technology of the UPM (2011-14).