Fernando J. Velez (M’93–SM’ 05) received the Licenciado, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon in 1993, 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering of University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Assistant Professor. He is also researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, and was a Research Fellow in King’s College London in 2008/09. He made or makes part of the teams of RACE/MBS, ACTS/SAMBA, COST 259, COST 273, COST 290, ISTSEACORN, IST-UNITE, PLANOPTI, COST 2100, COST IC0902 and COST IC 0905 (TERRA) European projects, he participated in SEMENTE, SMART-CLOTHING and UBIQUIMESH Portuguese projects, and he was or is the coordinator of six Portuguese projects: SAMURAI, MULTIPLAN, CROSSNET, MobileMAN, OPPORTUNISTIC-CR and PROENERGY-WSN. He is the coordinator of the WG2 (on Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio Co-existence Studies) of COST IC0905 (TERRA). Prof. Velez has authored two books, five book chapters, around 80 papers and communications in international journals and conferences, plus 25 in national conferences, and is a senior member of IEEE and Ordem dos Engenheiros (EUREL), and a member of IET and IAENG. His main research areas are cellular planning tools, traffic from mobility, simulation of wireless networks, cross-layer design, inter-working, spectrum sharing /aggregation, multi-service traffic and cost/revenue performance of advanced mobile communication systems.
