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Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza

Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Inatel-Instituto Nacional de Telecommunications (1994), a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Inatel (2002), and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Unicamp-Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2009). He is currently a full professor at Inatel and is a visiting researcher at The University of Sydney. He served six years as deputy coordinator for Inatel's Lato Sensu postgraduate program. He served as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Itajubá. He has published articles in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals and international conferences. He was the Coordinator of the Advisory Chamber of Architecture and Engineering (TEC) from Fapemig. He is a CNPq PQ researcher. He was the general coordinator of the XL Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (SBrT 2022). He was Editor-in-Chief of JCIS (Journal of Communication and Information Systems). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters. He has experience in the area of Electrical Engineering, with an emphasis on Telecommunications, working mainly in the area of wireless communications. He has industry experience in the production and supply areas. His research includes general aspects of Digital transmission, mobile communication, fading channels, and spectral sensing for cognitive radio systems. His most recent interest lies in artificial intelligence techniques applied to telecommunications. Reviewer for several journals. He is a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT), and a member of COMSOC, TVT, and AP/S.

Victoria Dala Pegorara Souto

Victoria Dala Pegorara Souto received an M.Sc. (2017) in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria in Santa Maria, Brazil and a D.Sc. (2021) in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil. In 2020, she was a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney in Camperdown, NSW, Australia. In 2021–2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She is currently a professor at the National Institute of Telecommunications in Brazil. Her research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, 5G cellular systems, wireless energy transfer, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and artificial intelligence.

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Jorge Ricardo Mejia Salazar

Graduating with a degree in Physics from Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) in 2008, the researcher went on to earn both his Master's and Doctorate degrees from the same institution in 2008 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Alagoas, followed by another postdoctoral position at the Institute of Physics of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo from 2016 to 2018. Since June 2018, Jorge Ricardo has been a faculty member at the National Institute of Telecommunications, where he focuses on cutting-edge research in applied electromagnetism, particularly in telecommunications. His recent work has introduced groundbreaking concepts, such as the development of lossless optical tweezers and highly miniaturized magnetoplasmonic biosensors capable of detecting concentrations as low as a few dozen particles. He has also pioneered the use of magnetic fields to reconfigure optical beams for wireless chip-scale communications and THz band mobile communications. Currently, his research is centered on developing novel concepts for reconfigurable metasurfaces, leveraging various physical mechanisms, including magnetic and electric fields, and exploring new materials. Jorge Ricardo also serves as a peer reviewer for over 70 international journals, including high-impact publications such as Advanced Materials, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Small, Advanced Optical Materials, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Ana Flávia dos Reis

Ana Flávia dos Reis received her B.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering in 2017 and her M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and Networks in 2020, both from the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. In 2024, she obtained her Ph.D. in a cotutelle between UTFPR and Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel) in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil. Her research interests include the application of machine learning techniques to wireless communications systems.

Hugerles Sales Silva

Hugerles S. Silva received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University Federal of Campina Grande, Brazil, in 2014, 2016, and 2019, respectively. From 2020 to 2021, he was a Ph.D. student at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Since 2021, he has been a Researcher in IT in Portugal. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Brasília (UnB) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel) in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil. Prof. Silva has been involved on the organizing committee of several conferences and serves as chair of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) UnB Student Branch Chapter. He was the recipient of the Latin America Region Young Professional Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2022. His main research interests include digital signal processing and wireless channel modeling. He is a senior member of IEEE and a reviewer for several journals. He is the author of more than 70 publications in scientific journals and international conferences.