Keynote Speakers

Prof.Antonio De Maio,
University "Federico II" of Napoli

Bio-Sketch: Antonio De Maio received the Dr.Eng. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. From October to December 2004, he was a Visiting Researcher with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA. From November to December 2007, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor with the University of Naples Federico II. His research interest lies in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on radar detection, optimization theory applied to radar signal processing, and multiple-access communications. He is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Award as the young (less than 40 years of age) AESS Radar Engineer 2010 whose performance is particularly noteworthy as evidenced by contributions to the radar art over a period of several years, with the following citation for "robust CFAR detection, knowledge-based radar signal processing, and waveform design and diversity". He is the corecipient of the 2013 best paper award (entitled to B. Carlton) of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS with the contribution "Knowledge-Aided (Potentially Cognitive) Transmit Signal and Receive Filter Design in Signal-Dependent Clutter".

Dr. De Maio is a Fellow of IEEE and has been a member of the IEEE AESS System Panel (2010-2019). He gave many tutorials, co-authored many invited talks, lectured in NATO LS in different countries and on different topics.
Dr. De Maio co-authored more than 300 technical papers (mostly published on IEEE journals/conferences) and acted as the Editor of 5 books on radar topics (detection, waveform design, compressed sensing, cognitive radar).

Prof. Vitor Fernao Pires
Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal

Bio-Sketch: Vitor Fernão Pires received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Institute Superior of Engineering of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively.

Since 1991, he has been a member of the teaching staff with the Electrical Engineering Department, Superior Technical School of Setúbal (ESTSetúbal), Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS). He is currently a Coordinator Professor teaching power electronics and control of power converters. He is also a senior Researcher at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores—Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID). It is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an IEEE member since 1996 and member of the Industrial Electronics Society. Besides that, he is chair of the IEEE Portuguese Joint Chapter, Industry Applications, Industrial Electronics and Power Electronics.

Vitor Fernão Pires is the author and coauthor of over 300 journal and refereed conference publications. He has collaborated in several national and European projects. He was also invited to be a reviewer of research founded projects from Polish National Science Center, Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) and Kazakhstan National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE). He was the general chair of the international conference icSmartGrids 2021 and general co-chair of the IEEE CPE-POWERENG 2020. He was also one of the founders of the IEEE POWERENG conference series. He has been Program Committee and/or Track Chair member of several international conferences.

Prof. Rafael Caldeirinha
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria)

Bio-Sketch: Rafael F. S. Caldeirinha (Fellow Member IET and Senior Member IEEE) was born in Leiria, Portugal, in 1974. He received the BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Glamorgan, UK, in 1997. In 2001, he was awarded a Ph.D in Radiowave Propagation by the same University for his research work in vegetation studies at frequencies from 1 to 62.4 GHz. He is currently Head of the Antennas & Propagation (A&P-Lr) research group at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Leiria, Portugal, and Coordinator Professor in Mobile Communications at the School of Technology and Management (ESTG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria), Portugal.

His research interests include studies of radiowave propagation through vegetation media, radio channel sounding and modeling and frequency selective surfaces, for applications at microwave and millimetre wave frequencies.

Prof. Caldeirinha has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers in conferences and international journals and 4 contributions to ITU-R Study Group, which formed the basis of the ITU-R P.833-5 (2005) recommendation. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation journal; Associate Editor of the IET on Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation journal; Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Communication Systems, IJCS (New York, Wiley); Program chair of WINSYS International Conference between 2006 and 2012; Appointed Officer for Awards and Recognitions of the IEEE Portugal section in 2014; Chair of the IEEE Portugal Joint Chapter on Antennas & Propagation - Electron Devices - Microwave Theory & Techniques since 2016; Regional Delegate of European Association for Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) for Andorra, Portugal and Spain since March, 2017; Chair of the Scientific Committee F (Propagation and Remote Sensing) of the Portuguese International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Committee; and a Senior Member of URSI, Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow Member of IET.