Ricardo Reis is a former president of the Brazilian Computer Society and former vice-president of the Brazilian Microelectronics Society. He is now trustee of both societies. He is a trustee and former vice-president of the International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP. He received the Silver Core Award from IFIP. He is member of IFIP TC10 and WG 10.5. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Integrated Circuits and Systems, JICS. Ricardo is also Member of the Editorial Board Latin America liaison of the IEEE D&T as Latin America liaison. He contributed to the organizing and program committees of several a large number of international conferences (like VLSI-SoC, ISVLSI, ISSS+CODES, PATMOS, RAW, LATW, SBCCI, IFIP World Congress, â¦) and he is a founder of the SBCCI conference series (Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design). He is also Editor of several books.