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Dr. Iker Sobrón was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 1978. He received the Electronics Engineering degree from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain, in 2006, and the Physics degree from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain, in 2010. He earned his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mondragon (MU), Spain, in January 2011. In 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Information Technology of University of Turku, Finland. From January 2011 to August 2012, he was with the Department of Electronics and Computing of MU as a lecturer and researcher in the Signal Theory and Communications Area. Dr. Sobron was post-doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of Electronics and Computing Engineering of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, between January 2013 and December 2014. Currently, he is post-doctoral senior researcher of the Communications Engineering Department of UPV/EHU.

His research interests are in next-generation wireless communications, internet of things, machine learning, 5G mobile networks, sensor networks, cognitive radio, distributed networks, detection theory and signal processing. He is currently a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering).