João Santos was born in 1990 and he is from Coimbra. In 2014, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro with a dissertation entitled “RFID reader for UHF frequency band based on Software-Defined Radio”.
Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações. His main research interests include radio frequency identification (RFID), FPGA’s microcontroller programming and signal processing.
Ricardo Correia was born in 1985 and he is from Viseu. In 2009, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro.
Worked one year as an automation and electrical engineer and three years as a researcher in embedded systems and signal processing.
Currently, he is a researcher at Institute of Telecommunications – University of Aveiro and his research interests include wireless power transfer, energy harvesting and wireless passive sensors for space applications. Mr. Correia is a student member of IEEE. He is also a reviewer for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation.
Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering in Aveiro University. His main research interests include wireless power transfer, energy harvesting and wireless passive sensors for IoT and space applications.
Daniel Malafaia was born in 1989 and he is from Aveiro. In 2012, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro with a dissertation entitled “Real Time Front-end for Cognitive Radio Inspired by the Human Cochlea”.
Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações and a Ph.D. student in MAP-tele Doctoral Program in Telecommunications. His main research interests include software defined radio, digital signal processing, spectrum sensing, signal detection and classification.
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 a 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, PLANOPTI, COST 2100, COST IC0902, COST IC0905 “TERRA’, COST IC1004 and INSYSM European projects, he participated or is participating in SEMENTE, SMART-CLOTHING, UBIQUIMESH, NEUF (LTEAdvanced Enhancements using Femtocells), HANDCAD, ECOOP 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. Prof. Velez has been the coordinator of the WG2 (on Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio Coexistence Studies) of COST IC0905 “TERRA”. Prof. Velez has authored two books, thirteen book chapters, 160 papers and communications in international journals and conferences, plus 30 in national conferences, is a senior member of IEEE, IT and Ordem dos Engenheiros (EUREL), and a member of IET. His main research areas are cellular planning tools, traffic from mobility, crosslayer design, spectrum sharing/aggregation, and cost/revenue performance of advanced mobile communication systems.
Luís Brás was born in 1985. He received the M. Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro in July 2009 and is currently a PhD student at the same university.
In October 2009, he received a research scholarship from the Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) which he used to continue his research on location systems (LS). Currently he has been working in Instituto de Telecomunicações of Aveiro where he got involved with projects related with indoor and outdoor LS.
His main research interests are related with low power LS, including development of nodes firmware, hardware integration, communication protocols and location algorithms. He also have been designing low cost antennas mainly LS and vehicular communications. Luis Brás is an IEEE Student Member and an invited reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.
