Gabriel Caffarena received his M.Sc degree in telecommunication engineering in 1998 and his Ph.D degree from the Technical University of Madrid (U.P.M.) in 2008 (Best Ph.D Thesis Award). He is currently an associate professor of signal processing; a coordinator of the Master in Biomedical Engineering at the University San Pablo CEU; and a visiting professor of the University of Rennes, France. His research interests include embedded systems for biomedical applications, FPGA/GPU acceleration and automatic precision analysis of algorithms. He is the author of more than 80 scientific publications and 2 patents.