Professional experience
- Associate Professor, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), November 2016 to present.
- Assistant Professor, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), November 2008 to October 2016.
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), August 2014 to July 2015.
- Visiting Professor, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), May 2007 to October 2008.
- Associate Researcher, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), May 2004 to April 2007.
Positions held
- Deputy Head for Professional Programs on the Area of Engineering IV at CAPES-Brazil (2018-2026).
- Member of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Area Committee (2022-2024).
- Regional Director-at-Large, Regions 7 & 9 (Canada and Latin America), IEEE Signal Processing Society, (2020-2021).
- President of Brazilian Telecommunications Society (2018-2020).
- Vice-president of External Relationships, Brazilian Telecommunications Society (2016-2018).
- Vice-President of Development and Diffusion, Brazilian Telecommunications Society (2012-2014).
- Vice-President of Finance, Brazilian Telecommunications Society (2010-2012).
- Level 1D Research Fellow of the CNPq, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (2024-2028)
- Level 2 Research Fellow of the CNPq, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (2009-2024)
- Counselor of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (2020-2026).
- General Chair of XXXI Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT 2013), Fortaleza-CE, Brazil, 2013.
Editorial activities
Session organizer and chairing
- Organizer and co-chair of the special session "Information Geometry for Signal Processing and Communications" at The Ninth IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2016), 10th-13th July 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Organizer and co-chair of the special session "Information Geometry Approaches for Signal Processing" at 2017 IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2017), December 10-13, 2017, Curaçao, Dutch Antilles.
- Track Co-Chair of 2014 IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS2014) - (Signal Processing and Multimedia Track), 2014.
- Publicity Chair of 10th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2018), 2018.
- Publicity Chair of The Ninth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2012), 2012.
- Finance Chair of IEEE 18th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR2017), 2017.
- Finance Chair of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2011.
- Finance Chair of 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA2009), 2009.
- Finance Chair of IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS 2006), 2006.
- Executive Technical Committee of 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC2008), 2008.
Professional associations
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Member since 1997, Senior Member since 2011.
- Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT). Member since 1998, Senior Member since 2012.
- American Mathematical Society (AMS). Member since 2011.
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Member since 2015.
- Brazilian Automation Society (SBA). Member since 2009.
- Brazilian Mathematical Society (SBM). Member since 2014.
Technical program committee (TPC) membership
- 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference, Singapore, 2024
- 19th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2024), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2024
- 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver USA, 2024
- 15th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2023), Panama City, Panama, 2023
- 41st Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2023), São José dos Campos, Brazil, 2023
- 2023 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2023), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2023
- 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2023), Helsinki, Finland, 2023
- 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), Florence, Italy, 2023
- 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Wireless Communications Symposium, Rome, Italy, 2023
- 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 2022
- 18th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2022), Hanzhou, China, 2022
- 14th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM 2022), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022
- 12th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2022), Trondheim, Norway, 2022
- 23rd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2022), Oulu, Finland, 2022
- 40th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2022), Santa Rita de Sapucaí, Brazil, 2022
- 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2021), Lucca, Italy, September 27-30, 2021
- 39th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2021), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2021
- 28th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2021), London, United Kingdom, 2021
- 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 2021
- 17th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2021), Harbin, China, 2021
- IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 2021
- 12th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (IEEE LATINCOM 2020), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2020
- 38th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2020), Florianópolis, Brazil, 2020
- 16th International conference on Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2020), Limassol, Cyprus, 2020
- 21st IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2020), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2020
- 11th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2020), Hangzhou, China, 2020
- 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2020), Berlin, Germany, 2020
- IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, 2020
- 24th International Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2020), Hamburg, Germany, 2020
- 11th Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2019), Salvador-Brazil, 2019
- 37th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2019), Petrópolis-Brazil, 2019
- 4th conference on Geometric Science of Information (GSI2019), Toulouse, France, 2019
- 20th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'19), Cannes, France
- 16th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS'2019), Oulu, Finland
- 2019 26th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2019 IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF), Dresden, Germany, 2019
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2019), Marrakech, Morocco
- 23rd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2019), Wien, Austria
- 2019 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications \& Computing (SigTelCom), HaNoi, Vietnam, 2019
- 36th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2018), Campina Grande-Brazil, 2018
- 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Aalborg, Denmark, 2018
- 2018 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Lisbon, Portugal, 2018
- 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, 2018
- 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2018), Guildford, United Kingdom, 2018
- 2018 IEEE 10th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2018), Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2018
- 2018 IEEE 1st 5G World Forum (5GWF'18), Santa Clara, CA, USA
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2018), Barcelona, Spain
- 22st International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2018), Bochum, Germany
- IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO), Cape Town - South Africa, 2017
- 35th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2017), São Pedro-Brazil, 2017
- 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece, 2017
- 7th IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, 2017
- 21st International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2017), Berlin, Germany
- 85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2017, Sydney, Autralia
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2017, San Francisco, USA
- 13th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA-ICA), Grenoble-France, 2017
- IEEE Radio and Antenna Days of the Indian Ocean (RADIO), Réunion Island, 2016
- 34th Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT2016), Santarém-Brazil, 2016
- 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2016, Budapest, Hungary
- 20th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2016), Ilmenau, Germany
- 2016 IEEE 9th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
- 2nd Conference on Geometric Science of Information (GSI 2015), Paris-Saclay, France, 2015
- 19th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2015), Ilmenau, Germany
- 33rd Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT2015) (Juiz de Fora-Brazil, 2015)
- 7th The International WDN Workshop on Cooperative and Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (WDN-CN2014), Washington-DC, USA
- International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
- Geometric Science of Information (GSI2013), Paris, France, 2013
- The Tenth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2012), Ilmenau, Germany, 2013
- 18th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing 2013 (DSP 2013), Santorini, Greece, 2013
- The 2012 International WDN Workshop on Cooperative and Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (WDN-CN2012)
- The Ninth International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2012), Paris, France, 2012
- 30th Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT 2012) (Brasília-Brazil, 2012)
- 29th Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT 2011) (Curitiba-Brazil, 2011)
- III Workshop on Computational Intelligence (WCI 2010) (São Bernardo do Campo-Brazil, 2010)
- 9th International Conference on Latent Variables Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2010) (Saint Malo - France, 2010): formely the International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA)
- 7th IEEE International Telecommunication Symposium (ITS2010) (Manaus-Brazil, 2010)
- 7th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS’10) (York, United Kingdom, 2010)
- 13th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2010) (Recife-Brazil, 2010)
- 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP2009), Santorini, Greece, 2009
- 27th Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT2009) (Blumenau-Brazil, 2009)
- 8th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation (ICA2009) (Paraty-Brazil, 2009)
- II Workshop on Computational Intelligence (Salvador-Brazil, 2008)
- 26th Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT2008) (Rio de Janeiro-Brazil, 2008)
- 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC2008) (Recife-Brazil, 2008)
- 25th Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT2007) (Recife-Brazil, 2007)
- IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS2006) (Fortaleza-Brazil, 2006)
