Prof. Daniel Benevides Da Costa Email and Phone Number

Dr. Daniel B. da Costa received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Area: Telecommunications, from the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. His Ph.D thesis was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES) at the 2009 CAPES Thesis Contest. From March 2022 to January 2024, he was Principal Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi. He is currently Distinguished Professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia.During the last 10 years, Dr. da Costa was strongly involved in the editorial board of several journals. Currently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Letters and Specialty Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Communications and Networks - Wireless Communications Section. He has also been involved on the Organizing Committee of several conferences. From 2017 to 2022, he was the Latin American Chapters Coordinator of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Also, he acted as a Scientific Consultant of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil and he was a Productivity Research Fellow of CNPq. From 2012 to 2017, he was Member of the Advisory Board of the Ceará Council of Scientific and Technological Development (FUNCAP), Area: Telecommunications. He served as Vice-Chair Americas in the IEEE Cognitive Networks Technical Committee (TCCN) during the biennium 2019-2020. He was also Director of the TCCN Newsletter in the biennium 2019-2020 and he was the Chair of the Special Interest Group (SIG) on "Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks" in IEEE TCCN. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the SIG on REconFigurabLE Intelligent Surfaces for Signal Processing and CommunicatIONS (REFLECTIONS) in Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC) and the Vice-Chair of the Propagation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Dr. da Costa is the recipient of five conference paper awards. He was selected as World's Top 2% Scientist from Stanford University (2020, 2021), in two categories - specific year and whole career, and has been ranked among 1% Top Scientists in the world in the broad field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2022 and 2023. He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.Personal Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/danielbenevides81/