Andrea Boni received his M.S. degree in Electronics and his Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Parma. Since 2002, he has been Associate Professor of Electronics at the University of Parma, where he currently is responsible for the Analog I.C. design group. He is the author of more than 80 scientific papers and holds two international patents. His research interests include the design of A/D converters, integrated sensor nodes, ultra-low-power analog circuits, mixed-signal accelerators for neural networks, and automotive circuits. Prof. Boni was a co-founder of Silis S.r.l., a university spin-off company involved in the design of high-performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. He has been on the technical committee of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.