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Education

  • Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, Oct. 1999 - Nov. 2004 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
    • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, ( graduation date: November 2004)
    • Dissertation: Reachback Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Advisor: Prof. Joachim Hagenauer, Head of the Chair for Communications Engineering (LNT)
  • Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal Oct. 1994 - Jul. 1999 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Undergraduate/Graduate Studies, awarded the degree Licenciatura in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
  • University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Oct. 1997 - Mar. 1999 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
    • Visiting Student/Graduate Studies
    • Diploma Thesis: Noise Reduction for GSM Mobile Phones in Handset-free Operation", Advisors: Kristian Kroschel (Fraunhofer IITB) and Joachim Hagenauer (TUM),
  • Music Conservatory of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Oct. 1993 - Sep. 1999, Professional Degree in Musical Performance, Flute Major.

Language Skills

Portuguese (native speaker), German (fluent), English (fluent), French (working knowledge), Spanish (working knowledge)

Professional Experience

  • Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
    • Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP), Departmento de Engenharia Informática (Computer Science), Associate Professor 2008 - present
    • Faculdade de Ciências (FCUP), Departmento de Ci^encia de Computadores (Computer Science), Assistant Professor 2005 - 2008
  • Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACC/UP), Group Leader of the Information Networks Group 2005 - 2006
  • Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Group Leader of the Networking and Information Processing Group 2007 -
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
    • Visiting Scholar, Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2008, sabbatical leave, research and development, special lecture series on physical-layer security
    • Host: Prof. Muriel Medard
  • Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, Jun. 2002 - Sep. 2002, Feb. 2003 - Mar. 2003
    • Research Project: Reachback Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Host: Prof. Sergio D. Servetto
  • Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM), Munich, Germany Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
    • Scientific Assistant, Dec. 2002 - Nov. 2004, civil service appointment, research, teaching and administrative work
    • Member of the Research Staff/Assistant Lecturer, Oct. 1999 - Nov. 2002, full-time university employee, research, teaching and administrative work
  • Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, Semiconductor Division, now Infineon Technologies AG, Full-Time Internship Mar. 1998 - Apr. 1998 Digital signal processing algorithms for the GSM radio link.
  • Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany Institute for Machine Design and Automotive Technology, Research Assistant Oct. 1997 - Sep. 1998 Design and manufacturing of electronic circuits for sensor-aided instrumentation, micro-controller programming, digital signal processing.

Fellowships and Awards

  • Sabbatical Fellowship from the Luso-American Foundation to help fund an 8-month research leave at MIT in 2008.
  • Best Teaching Award from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, EUR 5000 , 2003.
  • Fulbright Scholarship Award for a six-month research project at Cornell University.
  • Essay Prize by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, 3-week study trip to Japan, September 1999.
  • Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), one-year graduate studies in Germany, not accepted due to full-time contract with TUM, July 1999.
  • Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship from the EU, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1997/1998.
  • Best Student Award, University of Porto, scholarship of merit, academic year 1997/1998.

Academic Committees

  • PhD Committees
    • Rui Prior, Department of Computer Science, University of Porto, April 2007.
    • Matthieu Bloch, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, April 2008.
    • Fadi Abi-Abdallah, Eurecom, France, December 2008.
  • MSc Committees
    • João Xavier, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra
    • Ricardo Tiago, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Service

  • Communications Panelist and Evaluator of Research Proposals for the US National Science Foundation 2008
  • Secretary of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society 2006-2008
  • General Co-Chair 2007/08 of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2008), in Porto, Portugal, sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society.
  • Member of the Organization Committee 2011/2012 for the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, July 2012 (tutorial chair).
  • Organizer and Chair of the Technical Program Committee 2007
    • First International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS 2007), held jointly with the IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'07), Santa Fe, USA, June 2007.
    • Second International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS 2008), held jointly with the IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'08), Santorini, Greece, June 2008. (Jointly with Aditya Ramamoorthy)
    • Third International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS 2009), held jointly with the IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'09), Marina Del Rey, California, June 2009. (Jointly with Sandeep Pradhan)
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee
    1. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2009), Adhoc and Sensor Networks Symposium.
    2. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), Communications Theory Symposium.
    3. IASTED International Symposium on Distibuted Sensor Networks (DSN 2008), Orlando, USA, November 16, 2008 to November 18, 2008.
    4. IASTED International Conference on Sensor Networks (SN 2008), Creta, Greece, September 29 - October 1, 2008.
    5. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2008), Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium.
    6. International Workshop on Physics-inspired Paradigms in Wireless Communications and Networks Berlin, Germany, April 2008.
    7. Information Theory and Statistical Learning' Conference (ITSL'08), held as part of WORLDCOMP' 08, the 2008World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA).
    8. 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2008), sponsored by IEEE.
    9. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007), Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium.
    10. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2007) sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society.
    11. International Symposium on Information Security (IS'07), LNCS.
    12. 8th International Symposium on Systems and Information Security (SSI2006), sponsored by the IEEE.
    13. 3a Confer^encia Nacional sobre Segurança Informática nas Organizações (SINO'2007), Lisboa, Portugal.
    14. 4a Confer^encia Nacional sobre Segurança Informática nas Organizações (SINO'2008), Coimbra, Portugal.
    15. 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2009), sponsored by IEEE.
    16. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009).
    17. 5th Euro-NGI on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2008).
    18. 7th ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, May 2009.
  • Session Chair 2007
    1. IEEE International Conference on Communications System, Guangzhou, China, November 2008 (Sessions: Network Architecture, Network Security and Cryptography, Wireless Mesh and Adhoc Networks)
    2. Special Session on Network Security, Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2008.
    3. IEEE International Conference on Information-Theoretic Security, Calgary, Canada, August 2008
    4. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008
    5. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 2007
    6. Special Session on Information-Theoretic Security, Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2007. Workshop Organizer 2007
    7. 3rd TheNIS Workshop (Thematic Network on Information Security), Porto, Portugal, December 2007.
    8. 6th RTCM Workshop (Portuguese Thematic Network on Mobile Communications) held jointly with the 6th Conference on Telecommunications (ConfTele 2007), Peniche, Portugal, May 2007.
    9. DAIDALOS Internal Training (of the European Integrated Project with the same name), Porto, Portugal, May 2007.
  • Member of the Editorial Board 2007
    • Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal (OEEE), published by Bentham Science Publishers.
  • Reviewer
    • for the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Education
    • for the following edited volume: Network Information Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) series, American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2004.
    • for the following conferences: IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Globecom, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, among others.
  • Publicity Co-Chair 2003/04 for the International Symposium on Information Theory and Applications (ISITA 2004) sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society.
  • Member of the IEEE since 1996 (IEEE Information Theory Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society)