Carlos A. Astudillo is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He received his Ph.D. (2022) and M.Sc. (2015) degrees in Computer Science from UNICAMP and his B.Sc. (2009) degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Cauca (UNICAUCA), Colombia. Before joining UNICAMP, he was an Assistant Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and a young researcher at the New Telecommunications Technologies Group (GNTT) at UNICAUCA. His work has been recognized with several awards, including best paper at IEEE ISCC and ICC-TAOS, as well as top honors in thesis and dissertation contests in Brazil and Latin America. His research interests focus on artificial intelligence, network protocols and resource management for communications, networking, and computing in IoT and 5G/6G networks, including open and disaggregated mobile networks, non-terrestrial infrastructures, and mobile fronthauling based on next-generation passive optical networks (PONs).