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Staff

GDED staff members are with the Department of Electricity and Electronics (Faculty of Science and Technology) and with the Department of Electronics Technology (School of Engineering of Bilbao).

Department of Electricity and Electronics

Faculty of Science and Technology

 

Javier Echanobe Arias (Senior Lecturer) - PI

Javier Echanobe Arias
Javier Echanobe (M'06) received the Licenciado degree in physics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, in 1990 and 1998, respectively.
He was a Predoctoral Researcher (granted by the Basque Government) from 1992 to 1996. He has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Electricity and Electronics, UPV/EHU, from 1999 to 2009. Since 2009 he is a Senior Lecturer in that department. His research interests focus on 1) digital electronics: embedded systems, reconfigurable FPGAs, DSPs, SoPC; 2) computational intelligence: artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, and neuro-fuzzy systems; 3) ubiquitous computing: ambient intelligence, intelligent environments, intelligent vehicles. Dr. Echanobe has published many papers in international journals and conferences in most of those areas.

Mª Victoria Martínez González (Associate Professor)

Mª Victoria Martínez González
 
Maria Victoria Martínez was born in Bilbao, Spain in 1964. She received the Licenciado degree in physics with specialization in electronics and automatics in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in physics, in 2002, both from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain.
She was a Predoctoral Researcher (granted by the Basque Government) from 1987 to 1998. She has been since 1995 an Associate Professor in the Department of Electricity and Electronics, UPV/EHU. She has published articles in international journals and conferences in the areas of electronics, computational intelligence, device modeling, ambient intelligence, among others. Her research interests mainly concern  the synthesis and electronic implementation of piecewise linear (PWL) systems with emphasis on efficient realizations for highly complex systems

Jon Gutiérrez Zaballa (Lecturer)

He obtained a Double BSc in Physics and BEng in Electronic Engineering in 2019 and a Master's Degree in Advanced Electronic Systems in 2021. In 2025 he completed a five-month research stay at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of Professors Luciano Lavagno and Mihai Lazarescu. Currently, she combines his doctoral research with teaching duties in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the use of hyperspectral imaging to strengthen detection, classification, and tracking systems that contribute to increasing the safety of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) based on computer vision. This work encompasses everything from the algorithmic design to the development of optimized processing systems and their implementation on programmable logic devices, such as FPGAs or PSoCs.

 

 

 

Department of Electronics Technology

Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao

 

Koldo Basterretxea (Associate Professor)

Koldo Basterretxea Oyarzabal
Koldo Basterretxea received the Licenciado degree in physics (MSc) with specialization in Electronics and Automatic Control in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in physics in 2002, both from the University of the Basque Country (EHU), Basque Country, Spain. He was a Lecturer at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department at the Industrial Technical Engineering School (EUITI) of Eibar (UPV/EHU), from 1995 to 1998, and at the EUITI of Bilbao (UPV/EHU) from 1998 to 2008. Currently he is with the Departament of Electronics Technology at the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao (UPV/EHU) where he holds the position of Associate Professor since 2009. His research interests include digital design of adaptive systems on FPGA/PSoC, embedded intelligent vision based on hypersepctral imaging, neuromorphic vision processing, and the design of hardware accelerators for numeric optimization algorithms and matrix algebra.

Pablo Rodríguez Fernández (Associate Professor)

Pablo Fernández Rodríguez obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering in 1994 from the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering in Bilbao and his PhD in 2015 from the University of the Basque Country (EHU). After working as a researcher at SIDENOR R&D between 1996 and 1999, he became an associate professor at the EHU in 1999 and a tenured professor at the School of Engineering of Bilbao in 2003.  His research initially focused on the control and design of permanent magnet synchronous electric machines. However, in recent years his interest has shifted towards the design of digital systems, especially in the field of FPGA programmable devices and microprocessors for embedded systems.

 

Unai Martínez Corral (Lecturer)

Unai Martinez-Corral received the Ingeniería Técnica Industrial BSc in 2013, and the Advanced Electronic Systems MSc in 2015, both from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Since 2016, he is a PhD candidate in the Engineering Physics programme with the Digital Electronics Design Group at the UPV/EHU. He is currently the Secretary of the IEEE P1076 Working Group (aka VHDL Analysis and Standardization Group). His research interests include open source tooling for the design, verification and implementation of adaptive systems on FPGA, hardware design for high-speed real-time controllers, and hardware-software co-design. In Q1 2021, he was awarded a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for his contributions to EDA tooling projects.

Research Associates

  • Unai Sainz Estébanez (MSc, PhD student)
  • Edurne Primicia (MSc , research associate)

External collaborating researchers

Postgraduate collaborators

  • Hodei Gamboa (Master's student)
  • Jon Elcoro (Master's student)

Undergraduate collaborators