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Was born in Brazil in 1955. He received the B.S.E.E. and the M.Sc. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil, in 1978 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Essex, U.K., in 1988.

From 1978 to 1985, he worked as a Research Specialist at the Research and Development Center od Telebrás, Brazil, in the development of the Tropico digital exchange family. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNICAMP, in 1989, where he is presently a Full Professor. He consults for several operating companies and industries in the wireless communications area. He is the author of Foundations of Mobile Radio Engineering (Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1993), Wireless Technology: Protocols, Standards, and Techniques (Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2001), and the co-author of Telecommunications: Principles and Trends (São Paulo, Brasil: Erica, 1997, in Portuguese). He holds two patents. His general research interests include wireless communications.

Received the B.S. degree from the Mauá School of Engineering, Brazil, in 1987, the M.Sc. degree from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of UNICAMP. Prior to joining the faculty of UNICAMP, he was with the CPqD Foundation, Campinas, Brazil, where he was involved with research projects in several areas, including satellite and wireless communications.

From November 1991 to August 1992 he was a visiting researcher at the Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni, Turin, Italy.

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