Daniel R. dos Santos is a Full Professor at the Military Institute of Engineering (IME). He received his master’sin Cartographic Science from the São Paulo State University (Brazil) in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Geodesic Science in 2005 from the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). From 2003 to 2004, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). From 2004 to 2021, he worked as an assistant professor at the Federal University of Paraná. From 2012 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Faculty of Geoinformation and Earth Observation Science (ITC/Netherlands). Daniel dos Santos is a recipient of the São Paulo State Institute of Engineering Award. His work on global point cloud registration was awarded by the University of Melbourne in 2019. Daniel taught many courses in photogrammetry and laser scanning at undergraduate and graduate levels over the years. His fields of expertise include photogrammetry and artificial intelligency. Daniel research focuses on 3D point clouds, which are particularly applicable for autonomous navigation and mapping using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and deep learning.