Salviano Pinto Soares holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Aveiro in Portugal. He has been a lecturer and professor of Signal Processing at the UTAD since 1996 and is also a senior researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering (IEETA) of the University of Aveiro. Salviano has led 15 R&D industry projects funded by FCT in wireless applications, voice quality evaluation, and smart homes. He is also the author or co-author of over 100 scientific or technical papers, 10 book chapters, and one international patent. His main research interests include signal processing for the IoT, audio engineering, and knowledge fundamentals.