Carlos Maciel earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ Brazil (2000) and an Electronics degree from IME Brazil (1989). Teaching signal processing, instrumentation, and large-scale system analysis, he is a Full Professor at the UNESP (State University of São Paulo), Brazil. He addresses signal processing, probabilistic and causal models, computationally expensive methods, resilience, and system planning. For undergraduate students, he teaches Signal and Systems and Digital Signal Processing; for the graduate level, he offers Pattern Recognition and Statistical Signal Processing.