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André Prata

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André Prata was born in 1990 and he is from Santa Comba Dão. In 2013, he received the Master degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from University of Aveiro. His dissertation work, entitled “Sistema de Rádio Digital para White Spaces UHF”, was distinguished with first prize in the international contest “IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2013 Software Defined Radio and Digital Signal Processing Student Design Competition”.

Currently, he is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações and a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at University of Aveiro. His main research interests include software defined radio, digital signal processing and cloud radio access network architectures.

José Vieira

José Vieira received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1988, from University of Coimbra, Portugal and in 1993 the M. Sc. in Systems and Automation from the same university. In 2000 he received the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aveiro University, Portugal and since then he is an Assistant Professor at the same university. In 2004 he founded the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Portuguese section and since 2005 he has been its president.

His main research interests are: digital audio signal processing, ultrasonic location, compressed sensing and software-defined radio.

Pedro Pinho

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Pedro Pinho was born in Vale de Cambra, Portugal in 1974. He received the Licenciado and Master’s degrees in electrical and telecommunications engineering, and the Ph. D. degree from the University of Aveiro in 1997, 2000, and 2004 respectively. He is currently a Professor Adjunto at the Department of Electrical Telecommunications and Computers Engineering in Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, in Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, and a Member of the research staff at the Institute for Telecommunications, Aveiro, Portugal from 1997.

His current research interest is in antennas for location systems, reconfigurable antennas and antenna design for passive sensors in non-conventional materials. He has authored or co-authored more than 90 papers in conferences and international journals and 4 book chapters.

João Nuno Matos

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João Nuno Matos is a Professor at the Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and a Senior Research Scientist with the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Universidade de Aveiro. He received the licenciado degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering, from Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, in 1982, the master degree, in electrical engineering, from Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, in 1989, and the doctoral degree, in electrical engineering, from Universidade de Aveiro, in 1995.

From 1982 to 1983 he was with Portugal Telecom Inovação. Since 1983, he collaborates with the Universidade de Aveiro where holds an associated professor position.

His main research interests include smart antennas, wireless power transmission and software-defined radio. He has been a reviewer and author of papers in magazines and conferences. He is the author or co-author of more than 70 journal and international conference papers, a member of IEEE and several conference scientific committees.

Ricardo Gonçalves

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Ricardo Gonçalves was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1988.  He is a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações in Aveiro and he’s currently pursuing the PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Aveiro.

He received the BSc and the MSc (Magna Cum Laude) on Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa in 2010 and 2012 respectively. In 2010/2011 he was awarded with merit scholarship for exceptional academic performances. From 2010 to 2012, he worked at Dailywork I&D Lda. as a developer engineer in embedded electronic systems for vehicular location systems and healthcare platforms.

His main research interests include wireless power transfer systems, RFID and wireless passive sensor networks. His current focus is on the development of printed antennas and microwave circuits in non-conventional materials such as textiles, ceramics, plastic, paper and cork, for the former applications.