Mario Alexandre Gazziro has a PhD in Physics from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with an internship at Technical Superior Institute, Portugal. He is a microeletronics specialist with advanced training from Toshiba Semiconductors, Japan. His areas of expertise involve microelectronics, reconfigurable hardware, image and signal processing, neurosciences, biomedical engineering, RFid, and MRI. Currently, he is a professor at the Federal University of ABC, Brazil.