Nuno Horta (S’89–M’97–SM’11) received the Licenciado, MSc, PhD and Habilitation degrees in electrical engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1989, 1992, 1997 and 2014, respectively. In 1998, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IST, where he is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation. He is a Senior Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, where he is the head of the Integrated Circuits Group. He has supervised more than 100 post graduation works between MSc and PhD theses. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications as books, book chapters, international journals papers and conferences papers. He has also participated as researcher or coordinator in several National and European R&D projects. He was/is General Chair of AACD 2014, PRIME 2016, SMACD 2016 and SMACD 2023, and was/is member of the organizing and technical program committees of several other conferences, e.g., IEEE ISCAS, IEEE LASCAS, DATE, NGCAS, ESSCIRC, etc. He is Associated Editor of Integration, The VLSI Journal, from Elsevier, and usually acts as reviewer of several prestigious publications, e.g., IEEE TCAD, IEEE TEC, IEEE TCAS, ESWA, ASC, etc. His research interests are mainly in applied Computational Intelligence in the fields of analog and mixed-signal IC design, analog IC design automation and computational finance.