Rui Aguiar

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Instituto de Telecomunicações
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Rui L. Aguiar received his degree in telecommunication engineering in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, responsible for the networking area, and has been previously an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Brazil and served as advisor to the portuguese governement on 5G policies. He is coordinating a research line nationwide in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Services. During six years, he led the Technological Platform on Connected Communities, a regional cross-disciplinary industry-oriented activity on smart environments.

His current research interests are centred on the implementation of advanced wireless networks and systems, with special emphasis on 5G networks and the Future Internet. He has more than 500 published papers in those areas, including standardization contributions to IEEE and IETF. He has served as technical and general chair of several conferences, from IEEE, ACM and IFIP, and is regularly invited for keynotes on 5G and Future Internet networks. He sits on the TPC of most major IEEE ComSoc conferences. He has extensive participation in national and international projects, as well as in industry technology transfer actions.
He is currently associated with the 5G PPP Infrastructure Association and is the current Chair of the steering board of the Networld Europe ETP. He is senior member of IEEE, Portugal ComSoc Chapter Chair, and a member of ACM. He is associated editor of Wiley’s ETT, and Springers’ Wireless Networks and has helped on the launch of Elsevier’s ICT Express. He is a chartered engineer, has acted as a consultant to several major operators, as technology advisor to bootstrap several SMEs, and as an expert to several public bodies, both on the societal and on the judiciary branches. He currently sits on the Advisory Board of several EU-projects and research units.

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