Fernando J. Velez (M’93–SM’05) received the Licenciado, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon in 1993, 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering of Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Assistant Professor, and he is also a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações. Fernando was an IEF Marie Curie Research Fellow in King’s College London in 2008/09 (OPTIMOBILE IEF) and a Marie Curie ERG fellow at Universidade da Beira Interior from 2010 until March 2013 (PLANOPTI ERG). He made or makes part of the teams of RACE/MBS, ACTS/SAMBA, COST 259, COST 273, COST 290, IST-SEACORN, IST-UNITE, COST 2100, COST IC0902, COST IC0905 “TERRA” and COST IC1004 European projects, he participated or is participating in SEMENTE, SMART-CLOTHING, UBIQUIMESH, NEUF (LTE-Advanced Enhancements using Femtocells) and CREaTION (Cognitive Radio Transceiver Design for Energy Efficient Data Transmission) Portuguese projects, and he was or is the coordinator of six Portuguese projects: SAMURAI, MULTIPLAN, CROSSNET, MobileMAN, OPPORTUNISTIC-CR and PROENERGY-WSN. He is the coordinator of the WG2 (on Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio Co-existence Studies) of COST IC0905 “TERRA”. He has authored two books, twelve book chapters, 115 papers and communications in international journals and conferences, plus 29 in national conferences, is a senior member of IEEE and Ordem dos Engenheiros (EUREL), and a member of IET. Prof. Velez is the chair from the IEEE VTS Portugal Chapter since 2006, VTS Region 8 (Europe and Africa) Chapter Coordinator since 2010, member of the commission for the coordination of the specialization on Telecommunications from Ordem dos Engenheiros since 2007 and adjunct-coordinator of the same commission since 2013. His main research areas are cellular planning tools, traffic from mobility, cross-layer design, radio resource management, spectrum sharing/coexistence/aggregation, and cost/revenue performance of advanced mobile communication systems.
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Nuno Borges Carvalho
Nuno Borges Carvalho is a Full Professor at the Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and a Senior Research Scientist with the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Universidade de Aveiro, where he coordinates the wireless communication thematic area and the Radio Systems Group. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003) and Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge Press, 2013). He has been a reviewer and author of over 200 papers in magazines and conferences. He co-holds four patents.
His main research interests include software-defined radio front-ends, wireless power transmission, nonlinear distortion analysis in microwave/wireless circuits and systems, and measurement of nonlinear phenomena. He has recently been involved in the design of dedicated radios and systems for newly emerging wireless technologies. Dr. Borges Carvalho is the chair of the IEEE MTT-11 Technical Committee. He is a member of IEEE MTT-20, MTT-24, and MTT-26. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Microwave Magazine and the chair of the URSI-Portugal Metrology Group.
