Rafael Kunst is a professor and researcher at the Applied Computing Graduate Program of the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil, where he is a member of the Software Innovation Laboratory (SOFTWARELAB). He is a faculty member of the Economics Graduate Program working with topics related to data science. He is an ad hoc consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. He holds a PhD and an MSc degree in computer science, both received from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His current research interests involve data science, machine learning, next-generation mobile communications such as 5G and 6G, military communications, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and the Internet of things. He has extensive experience as a consultant, coordinating and participating in projects with companies from Brazil and abroad. In 2009 and 2010, he was an invited researcher at the University of Pisa, Italy, and in 2020, he was a visiting professor at the IBM Watson IoT Center in Munich, Germany.