Eduard Alarcón is a Professor with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include resource-constrained short-range wireless communications, spacecraft-distributed architectures, AI chip coprocessor architectures, quantum computing architectures, and structured design of complex systems. He has served in different positions at IEEE. Alarcón received a Ph.D. degree in 2000 and an EE engineering degree (national award) from UPC.