Mikel Peñagarikano was born in Zumarraga, Spain, in 1973. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1996 and 2016, respectively. From 1997 to 2000 he was at the Department of Electricity and Electronics, UPV/EHU, under a research grant. Since 2000, he has been an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the same department. His research interest focuses on developing efficient software architectures for speech-processing applications, such as ASR, language and speaker recognition.