Fernando De Castro received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul—PUCRS, Brazil, in 1983, the M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from PUCRS in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas, in 2001. Currently he is adjunct professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. His research interests include wireless communication systems, adaptive systems, artificial intelligence, antennas and electromagnetics