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Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza

Rausley Adriano Amaral de Souza has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Inatel-National Institute of 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 a visiting researcher at The University of Sydney and LUT University (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT). 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.

Felipe Augusto Pereira de Figueiredo

Felipe A. P. Figueiredo received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil, in 2004 and 2011, respectively. He received his first Ph.D. from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 2019 and the second one from the University of Ghent (UGhent), Belgium, in 2021. He has been working on the research and development of telecommunication systems for more than 15 years. His research interests include digital signal processing, digital communications, mobile communications, MIMO, multicarrier modulations, FPGA development, computer vision and machine learning.

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.

Fernando Dario Almeida Garcia

Fernando Darío Almeida García is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Telecommunications (INATEL), Brazil. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Armed Forces University – ESPE, Ecuador, in 2012, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. From 2014 to 2020, he worked as a Researcher at BRADAR Indústria S.A. and EMBRAER Defense and Security, contributing to the development of advanced radar signal processing techniques. He held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Wireless Technology Laboratory (WissTek) at UNICAMP from 2021 to 2023. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA. He then joined the Wireless and Artificial Intelligence (WAI) Laboratory at INATEL as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 2024 to 2025. Dr. Almeida has received several prestigious scholarships, fellowships, and academic awards throughout his career. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and actively contributes to the research community as a reviewer for leading journals and as a member of technical program committees for international conferences and workshops. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals and flagship conferences. His research interests include communication and information theory, statistical signal processing, wireless communications, radar systems, channel modeling, and complex analysis.

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Hugerles Sales Silva

Hugerles S. Silva received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil, in 2014, 2016, and 2019, respectively. Since 2020, he is a Researcher in the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. From August to October 2024, he was a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama. 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. He was the general coordinator of the 2023 Workshop on Communication Networks and Power Systems (WCNPS 2023). 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.

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Pedro Emilio Gória Silva

He holds a bachelor's degree (2017), a master's degree (2020), and a PhD (2024) in Telecommunications Engineering from the National Institute of Telecommunications (INATEL), as well as a Doctor of Science (2024) from Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Lappeenranta, Finland. He has received several scholarships and awards, including the prestigious Nokia Foundation Award. He currently works on the following topics: semantic-functional communications, stochastic thermodynamics, information theory, wireless communication, and cyber-physical systems.