Specialty Chief Editor for Wireless Communications at Frontiers in Communications and Networks.
Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Ranked among the Top 1% Scientists Worldwide by Research.com (2022–2025).
Listed in Stanford/Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Scientists (2021–2025) for both Single-Year and Career-Long Impact.
Recipient of the CAPES Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering (2009).
Research Experience
With the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, from 2010 to 2022.
Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland, Jan–Apr 2019, supported by the Nokia Foundation (awarded Nokia Visiting Professor Grant in 2018 and 2021).
Visiting Faculty at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, May–Aug 2019.
Visiting Researcher at Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey, Sep–Nov 2019.
Full Professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Taiwan, 2021–2022; founded and led the Intelligent Wireless Communications (IWiCom) Research Group under the Future Technology Research Center.
Distinguished University Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) since March 2022; Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Communication Systems and Sensing (IRC-CSS).