Paulo S. R. Diniz

Paulo S. R. Diniz was born in Niterói, Brazil. He received the Electronics Engineer degree (cum laude) from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1978, the M.Sc. from COPPE/UFRJ in 1981, and the Ph.D. from Concordia University, Montreal, PQ, Canada, in 1984, all in electrical engineering. Since 1979, he has been with the undergraduate Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the UFRJ. He has also been with the Program of Electrical Engineering at COPPE/UFRJ since 1984, where he is presently a Professor. He has published over 300 refereed papers in some of these areas and wrote five textbooks. He has received some awards for best papers and technical achievement. He is also a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of EURASIP and has received the Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievements Award from the IEEE CAS Society in 2014, and was elected Member of the Brazilian Academy of Science of Brazil in 2014. Interests: Signal Processing, Communications.