Guido    Masera  received   the   Dr.-Ing. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering  from Politecnico  di Torino, Italy.He   is a  Professor  with  the  Electronic  Department,  Politecnico  di  Torino,  since  1992.His research  interests  include  several  aspects  in  the design of digital integrated circuits and systems, with a special emphasis on high-performance architectures for communications, forward error correction, image  and  video  coding,  cryptography and hardware accelerators for machine learning. He has more than 200 publications, two patents and was a designer of severalASIC components. Dr. Masera  is a member of TCHES Editorial Board and a former Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II and the IET Circuits, Devices & Systems.