Luciano Leonel Mendes
Inatel: Santa Rita do Sapucaí , Brasil.
Biography
Luciano Leonel Mendes (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Inatel, Brazil, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Unicamp, Brazil, in 2007. Since 2001, he has been a Professor with Inatel, where he acted as the Technical Manager of the Hardware Development Laboratory, from 2006 to 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Technical University of Dresden, where he has developed his postdoctoral research. In 2017, he was elected as a Research Coordinator of the 5G Brazil Project, an association involving industries, telecom operators, and academia which aims for funding and build an ecosystem toward 5G in Brazil. He is also the Technical Coordinator of the Brazil 6G Project.