Juan A. López received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree from the Universidad de Málaga in 1997, and the Doctor Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2004. Since November 1997, he has been with the Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, UPM, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

He has been a member of more than 30 R&D projects about the development of CAD tools and the implementation of very high-speed digital signal and image processing systems in different applications.

His research interests include design automation, interval methods, and hardware implementation of DSP systems, particularly the fixed-point properties of the linear and non-linear structures, quantization and fast evaluation of the finite word-length effects. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 papers in specialized journals and major congresses of these areas.