Guy Torfs received the Engineering degree in applied electronics and the Ph.D. degree in applied sciences and electronics from Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, in 2007 and 2012 respectively. Since 2011, he has been with IMEC, associated with Ghent University, where he first became part-time Assistant Professor in 2015. In 2018, he became full-time Associate Professor at Ghent University. His research interests include high-speed mixed-signal designs for wireless, fiber-optic and backplane communication systems, including digital signal processing and calibration, analog equalization circuits, radio-over-fiber transceivers, and clock and data recovery systems. In 2014, as part of the Bi-PON and Cascaded Bi-PON team, he was a recipient of the Greentouch 1000x award. He was a co-recipient of a 2015 DesignCon Best Paper Award in the High-Speed Signal Design category and the 2019 ECOC Best Demo Award. He was a member of the Program committee of RTUWO and the European conference of optical communications (ECOC), served as Associated Editor for IEICE Electronics Express and is currently serving as an Associated Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II.