Marcelo A.C. Fernandes received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010 at the University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) at King’s College London, UK. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. He leads the InovAI Lab and is a Senior Researcher at the Leading Advanced Technologies Center of Excellence (LANCE). His research interests include artificial intelligence, deep learning, digital signal processing, embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, and hardware.