Dr. Renato Machado (M’08, SM’21) received a BSEE. degree from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Ilha Solteira, SP, Brazil, in 2001. He received an M.Sc. and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He was a visiting Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, from Aug. 2006 to Jun. 2007. From November 2013 to February 2015, Dr. Machado was a visiting Research Fellow at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in partnership with Saab AB. He worked at the Nokia Institute of Technology, Brazil, in 2007 and 2008. From August 2009 to December 2017, he was an Assistant (2008–2016) and an Associate (2017) Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. Since December 2017, Dr. Machado has been with the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) as an Associate Professor. He is the research leader of the Digital and Signal Processing Laboratory, and SAR and Radar Signal Processing Laboratory, ITA. Dr. Machado is a Member of the Brazilian Telecommunication Society and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His research interests include SAR Processing, SAR image processing, change detection, radar signal processing, and digital signal processing.
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
Department of Telecommunications