Jean-Pierre Deschamps (Tarragone, Spain) received an MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1967, the PhD in computer science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in 1983, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1984. He is currently a professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. His research interests include ASIC and FPGA design, digital arithmetic and cryptography. He is the author of seven books and about a hundred international papers.