Joan Cabestany Joan Cabestany holds currently a Professor position at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He obtained the MSc Degree and PhD Degrees in Telecommunication Engineering in 1976 and 1982, respectively, both from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. His research interests include Analog and Digital Electronic Systems Design, Configurable and Programmable Electronic Systems, and Neural Networks Models and applications.