Luciano Leonel Mendes received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Inatel, Brazil, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Doctor degree from Unicamp, Brazil, in 2007, all in electrical engineering. Since 2001, he has been a Professor with Inatel, where he acted as the Technical Manager of the Hardware Development Laboratory from 2006 to 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Technical University of Dresden in the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, where he developed his postdoctoral. In 2017, he was elected Research Coordinator of the 5G Brazil Project, an association involving industries, telecom operators, and academia, which aims for funding and building an ecosystem toward 5G in Brazil. He is also the Research Coordinator of the Brasil 6G and xGMobile projects.