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Antonio F. Mondragon-Torres received a B.Sc. degree with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, a M.Sc. degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, and a Ph.D. degree (as a Fullbright-CONACYT scholarship recipient) from Texas A&M University, College Station; all degrees in electrical engineering in 1990, 1996, and 2002, respectively. From 1988 to 1995, he worked in a telecommunications company TVSCOM, Mexico City, Mexico, designing teletext products, first as a Design Engineer and later as a Design Manager. In 1995, he joined the Mechanical and Electrical Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, as an Associate Professor. From 2002 through 2008, he was with the DSPS R&D Center’s Mobile Wireless Communications Technology branch, Texas Instruments Dallas, Texas, and in 2008, he moved to the nanoMeter Analog Integration Wireless branch, where he worked as Analog IP verification technical lead. In 2009, he worked for Intel Guadalajara, Design Center in Mexico as Front-End/Back-End Technical Lead. In 2009, he joined the Electrical, Computer, and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Department at the Rochester Institute of technology, where he currently is a tenure-track Assistant Professor. His research interests include analog and digital integrated circuit implementation of communications systems and system-ona-chip methodologies.