José Machado da Silva received the Licenciado degree in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, both from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at FEUP and Research Manager and Project Leader at INESC TEC, with teaching and research responsibilities including analogue and mixed-signal electronics, VLSI design and test, signal processing, biomedical electronics and instrumentation, in which domains was PI or group leader of fifteen national or international projects. José Machado da Silva (co-)supervised or is supervising eight PhD students and more than 40 MSc dissertations. He is co-editor of a book, and co-authored six book chapters, more than 60 articles published in international and national journals and conferences, and one patent.