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Ricardo Lopes de Queiroz holds a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He has been a professor titular in the Computer Science Department at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, since 2009. Prior to that, he was a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the same university; a member of the Research Staff at Xerox Corporation, Webster, New York, USA; and an adjunct faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA. He is spending the year 2015 as a visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. Dr. de Queiroz is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society. Widely published and highly cited, he has been an editor of numerous journals and publications, as well as an integral part of various technical and organizing committees. He also holds 46 patents.

João Marcos Travassos Romano holds a Ph.D from the University of Paris-XI, France, and an M.Sc and B.Sc from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. In 1988, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at UNICAMP, where he is now a professor and the head of the Signal Processing for Communications Laboratory. Professor Romano has served as an invited professor at the University René Descartes, Paris France; Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; and École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France, as well as the vice-director of the School of FEEC at UNICAMP, the president of the Brazilian Communications Society (SBrT), and the editor-in-chief of the IEEE/SBrT Journal of Communications and Information Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE, an emeritus member of SBrT, and a recipient of the Zeferino Vaz Academic Achievements Prize (UNICAMP, 2008) and the 25 Years of the Brazilian Telecommunication Society Prize (SBrT, 2008) for research and teaching contributions in his field. Since April 2015, Professor Romano has been the dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP.

Charles Casimiro Cavalcante holds a Ph.D from the University of Campinas, Brazil, and an M.Sc and B.Sc from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil. From March 2007 to November 2008, he was a visiting professor in the Teleinformatics Engineering Department of UFC. He has been an assistant professor in the same department since November 2008, and holds the statistical signal processing chair. In addition, he is a researcher in the Wireless Telecommunications Research Group (GTEL) at UFC, and a senior member of both IEEE and the Brazilian Telecommunications Society. From August 2014 to July 2015, he was also a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He was also vice-president of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society for two terms, and an integral part of various technical and organizing committees.