Carlos Henrique Barriquello was born in Três Passos, Brazil, in 1984. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2007, 2009, and 2012, respectively. Since 2012, he has been an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electronics and Computing, UFSM. He has been a Researcher with the GEDRE/UFSM Intelligence in Lighting Research Group since 2008. His research interests include embedded and real-time systems, wireless sensor and actuator networks, lighting systems, visible light communications, and smart grid communication networks.