José Ignacio Martínez Torre holds a Physics Degree (Cantabria University (UNICAN) 1991) and a PhD in Physics (Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) 1999). He worked for INDRA Systemas and then moved to the UCM where he was researching in High Level Synthesis and Fuzzy Logic Systems. His stay finished in 1999 when he got his PhD in Physics with "Materializaciones a medida de Sistemas de lógica Borrosa" (Fuzzy Logic System ad-hoc hardware implementation). Since then, he has been researching and teaching at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid (URJC), where he leads the HwSw Design Group. He is author of more than 40 research papers and has been working in more than 10 R&D projects in collaboration with universities and companies. He has been the supervisor of four PhD Thesis, coauthor of two patents in the area of electronic implementations related to the reconfiguration and big data computation and advisor of a Got Energy Talent MSCA-COFUND Marie Curie grant. He has been the head of the Computer Engineering (ATCCCIA) department at the Computer Engineering School (ETSII) of the URJC for five years.