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João C. M. Silva received the B.S. degree for Aerospace Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – Lisbon Technical University, in 2000. From 2000-2002 he worked as a business consultant on McKinsey&Company. He finished his PhD thesis also at IST in 2006, focusing on Spread Spectrum techniques, Multi-User Detection schemes and MIMO systems. From 2006 to 2007 he was a professor at ESTG (Escola Superior Tecnologia e Gestão), in Leiria (teaching Physics and Electronics), and has been a professor since 2007 in ISCTE (Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa), in Lisboa (teaching Computer Networks). He is the author of more than 40 papers and reviewer of several international publications. His research interests include Computer Networks and Mobile Communications, including block transmission techniques (OFDM, SC-FDE), WCDMA, Multi-User Detection, Interference Cancellation, Space-Time Coding, MIMO systems, Smart and Adaptive Antennas, channel estimation and Software Defined Radio.
