Román Lara, PhD. of Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE

Biography:

Román A. Lara-Cueva (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electronic and telecommunications engineering from Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, in 2001; the M.Sc. degree in wireless systems and related technologies from the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2005, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication networks for developing countries from Rey Juan Carlos University, Fuenlabrada, Spain, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. In 2002, he joined the Departamento de Eléctrica, Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas— ESPE, Sangolquí, Ecuador, where he has been an Associate Professor, since 2005, and since 2016, he has been a Full Professor, where he founded and heads the Ad Hoc Network Research Center (CIRAD) and the Smart Systems Research Group (WiCOM-Energy), Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolquí-Ecuador, and also has collaborated as an external professor at King Juan Carlos University, Spain, since 2017. He received the Price to the Best Junior Researcher from Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in 2014, and Best Researcher from IEEE Ecuador Section in 2017. He has authored more than 45 referred and conference articles on topics related to wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. He is the author or coauthor in 13 publicly funded research projects and directed 8 of them. His main research interests include digital signal processing and machine learning theory applied to wireless communications systems and volcano seismology, also in the scope of the internet of things by developing smart gadgets for smart cities. 

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Fernado Almeida, PhD.

Since the beginning of the modern era of wireless communications, the propagation medium has been perceived as a randomly behaving entity between the transmitter and the receiver, which degrades the quality of the received signal due to the uncontrollable interactions of the transmitted radio waves with the surrounding objects. Yet the recent advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless communications enables network operators to control the radio waves (scattering, reflection, and refraction characteristics) and counteract the negative effects of natural wireless propagation. RIS is a revolutionizing new technology that is able to dramatically improve the performance of wireless communication networks, by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment with the use of massive low-cost passive reflecting elements integrated on a planar surface. Different elements can independently reflect the incident signal by controlling its amplitude or phase or both, thereby improving signal strength, reducing or co-channel interference and improving physical layer security.

Biography:

Fernando Darío Almeida García received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the Armed Forces University-ESPE, Quito, Ecuador, in 2012, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering with emphasis on

telecommunications and telematics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil, in 2015 and 2021, respectively. From 2014 to 2020, he worked together with Bradar Indústria S.A., a branch of EMBRAER Defense and Security, in the development of innovative radar signal processing techniques. From 2021, he is a postdoctoral fellow with the Wireless Technology Laboratory (WissTek) at UNICAMP. He has published over 15 technical papers, half of which are published in international journals. He has also served as a reviewer for many journals and has been involved as a technical program committee member in several conferences.

He was the recipient of the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) postdoctoral scholarship, SP, Brazil in 2021. His research interests include radar systems, wireless communications, channel modeling, and digital signal processing.