Marcello L. Rodrigues de Campos was born in Niteroi, Brazil, in 1968. He received the Engineering degree (cum laude) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1990, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from COPPE/UFRJ in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1995. In 1996, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Electronics, School of Engineering, UFRJ, and with the Program of Electrical Engineering, COPPE/UFRJ. From January 1997 to May 1998, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering (DE/3), Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Program of Electrical Engineering, COPPE/UFRJ, where he served as the Department Vice-Chair and Chair in the years 2004 and 2005, respectively. From September to December 1998, he was visiting the Laboratory for Telecommunications Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. He served as the IEEE Communications Society Regional Director for Latin America in 2000 and 2001. In 2001, he received a Nokia Visiting Fellowship to visit the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. In 2008, he visited Unik, the University Graduate Center of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. He has taught over 150 courses on mobile communications in 15 countries. His research interests include adaptive signal processing in general and its application to distributed networks in particular, adaptive beamforming, statistical signal processing, signal processing for communications, mobile and wireless communications, and multiple-input and multiple-output systems. Dr. Rodrigues de Campos served as the Local-Arrangements Cochair for Global Telecommunications Conference, 1999, Finance Chair for IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications 2008, and Plenary Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2011. He founded and is the current Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Rio de Janeiro Chapter.