Francisco Vázquez Gallego
Senior Researcher and Project Leader in Barcelona, España
Francisco Vázquez Gallego received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (1995), M.Sc. (2000) and PhD (2016) degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has more than 10 years of experience in analog and digital electronics R&D and project management, working in multidisciplinary projects at companies like NTE S.A., Tinytronic, Nub3D, Endesa and Amper.
During his adventure at NTE, Francisco participated in the development and manufacturing of prototypes and flight equipment for the European Space Agency (ESA) within the micro-gravity field and life-support systems, in projects like MARES (Muscle Atrophy Research & Exercise System, for NASA/ESA), EPU (Experiment Preparation Unit, for ESA), High Resolution Digital Still-Camera for Aerial Photography (for Institut Cartogràfic de Catatalunya -ICC), HAEMOSCAN and MULTIGEN (for ESA).
He has a broad and proven experience in the design and implementation of System-on-Chip on programmable devices. He is working in the integration of embedded systems and signal processing algorithms based on FPGAs.
Since January 2010, he is working at the CTTC’s Engineering Unit as Senior Researcher and collaborates in several industrial and public funded research projects, e.g., CO2GREEN, OpenMAC, GREEN-T.
Francisco obtained his IEEE Senior Member in 2011 and works as reviewer for numerous international conferences. He is currently conducting his PhD at the UPC and supervises a number of graduate students.