Professional service – Prof. André L. F. de Almeida

Editorial activities

Senior Area Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2024 – present)
Senior Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2020 – present)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2020 – 2022)
Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2016 – 2018; 2018 – 2020)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2012 – 2014; 2014 – 2016)
Associate Editor, Traitement du Signal (2014 – 2018)
Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing (2012 – 2018)
Associate Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2012 – 2014)
Guest Editor, Special issue “Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing and Communications”, Elsevier Signal Processing, 2024.
Guest Editor, Special issue “Sparse/Low-rank Tensor Signal Processing for Communication and Radar Systems”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2021.
Guest Editor, Special issue “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for 5G and Beyond Technologies”, Frontiers in Communications and Networks Journal, 2021.
Lead Guest Editor, Special issue “Broadband Wireless Access for Rural and Remote Areas”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019
Guest Editor, Special issue “Applications of Tensor Models in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing”, of the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018
Guest Editor, Special issue “Applications of Tensor Models in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018
Lead Guest Editor, Special issue “Recent advances in Tensor-based Signal and Image Processing”, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2014

Society and Technical Committee Memberships

Director-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Regions 7 & 9
Elected member of IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM-TC) (2022 – present)
Elected member of IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM-TC) (2016 – 2018; 2019 – 2021)
Elected member of EURASIP Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Systems Technical Area Committee (SPMuS TAC) (2018 – 2020; 2021 – 2023)
Vice-chair of EURASIP Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Systems Technical Area Committee (SPMuS TAC) (2022-2024)
Associate member of the Big Data Special Interest Group (SIG) of IEEE SPS (2016 – 2018)
Affiliate member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM-TC)
Affiliate member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP-TC)

Session Organizer and Chairing

General Co-Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2023), Costa Rica, 2023
Area Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2023), Helsinki, Finland, September 2022
Technical Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Communication Networks and Power System (WCNPS 2022), Fortaleza, November 2022
Area Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2022), Belgrade, Serbia, August 2022
General Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Communication Networks and Power System (WCNPS 2021), Brasilia, November 2021
Technical Co-Chair of the Brazilian Telecommunications and Signal Processing Symposium (SBrT 2021), September 2021
Area Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2021), Dublin, Ireland, August 2021
Area Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2020
Organizer of the special session “Tensor Models for Signal and Information Processing” at the ASILOMAR conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR-SSC 2021);
Technical Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM 2020), Hangzhou, China, June 2020
Area Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2019), A Coruña, Spain, August 2019
Technical Co-Chair of the Symposium on “Tensor Methods for Signal Processing and Machine Learning” at IEEE GlobalSIP 2018 and GlobalSIP 2019
Organizer of the special session “Tensor Models for Array Processing” at the ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR-SSC 2019)
Organizer of the special session “Tensor-Based Signal and Information Processing” at ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR-SSC 2018)
Co-organizer of the special session “Advanced Tensor Methods for Big Data Processing” at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017)
General Co-chair of the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2017)
Organizer and chair of the special session “Tensor signal processing” at the Ninth IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing Workshop (SAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
Organizer and chair of the special session “Massive MIMO systems” at the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2015), Cancun, Mexico, 2015
Organizer and chair of the special session “Tensor-based signal processing” at the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2015), Cancun, Mexico, 2015
Organizer and chair of the special session “Tensor-Based signal processing” at the Eight IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing Workshop (SAM 2014), La Coruña, Spain, 2014
Organizer and chair of the special session “Tensor-based methods for multi-sensor signal processing” at the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2013), Saint Martin, 2013

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Membership (non-exhaustive list)

Area Chair of EUSIPCO (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
TPC member of EUSIPCO 2021, Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2021
TPC member of EUSIPCO 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aug. 2020
TPC member of EUSIPCO 2019, A Coruña, Spain, Aug. 2019
TPC member of ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2019, Viena, Mar. 2019
TPC member of IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM 2018), Sheffield, July 2018
TPC member of EUSIPCO 2017, Kos, Greece, Aug. 2017
TPC member of ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2017), Berlin, Mar. 2017
TPC member of IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing (SAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, July 2016
TPC member of ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2016), Munich, Mar. 2016
TPC member of IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2015), Cancun, Dec. 2015
TPC member of Brazilian Telecommunications Symposium (SBrT), Juiz de Fora, Sep. 2015
TPC member of ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2015), Ilmenau, Mar. 2015
TPC member of IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing Workshop (SAM 2014), A Coruña, Aug. 2014
Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2013)
TPC member of IEEE GLOBECOM 2014- Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Dec. 2014.
TPC member of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS 2014)
TPC member of IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 – Workshop Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security (TCPLS, 2013)
TPC member of the Seventh International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2013)
TPC member of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2013)
TPC member of past Brazilian Telecommunications Symposia (SBrT 2011, 2012, and 2013)
TPC member of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013)

Invited talks (last 10 years)

Tensor decompositions and applications to wireless communications. Location/date: Ericsson Research, Kista, Sweden, November 2023.
Intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for wireless communications. Location/date: University of Côte D’Azur, France, December 2022.
5G Technology at the Digital Silk Road. Location/date: China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair, Guangzhou, China, November 2022.
Tensor-based approach for IRS phase-shift feedback control, The 7th Zhejiang University Graduate International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing. Location/date: Hangzhou, China, October 2022.
Tensor-based channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface assisted MIMO communications. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, September 2022.
Tensor Train Models and Algorithms. Location/date: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Mathematics, November 2019.
Tensor-CS for MmWave Channel Estimation. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, September 2019.
MmWave MIMO Channel Estimation: Combining Tensors and Compressive Sensing Location/date: TU Munich, Munich, Germany, August 2019.
A Tensor Perspective on Large-Scale MIMO Array Processing. Location/date: Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing and Data Analytics (SAM-DA) workshop, Hangzhou, May 2019.
A Tensor Perspective on Large-Scale MIMO Array Processing. Location/date: Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2019), Vienna, April 2019.
A Tensor Perspective on Large-Scale MIMO Array Processing. Location/date: IDEX Forum Numerica, I3S Laboratory, France, April 2019.
Tensor-based Compressed Estimation of Frequency-selective MmWave MIMO Channels. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, August 2018.
Hybrid Beamforming and Massive MIMO for 5G Wireless Systems. Location/date: Ericsson Research, Kista, Sweden, October 2017.
A Rank-one Tensor Modeling Approach to the Joint Channel and Symbol Estimation in Two-hop MIMO Relaying Systems. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, August 2017.
Low-complexity equalizer for massive MIMO systems based on array separability. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, August 2017.
Tensor-Based MIMO Relaying Communication Systems. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, December 2016.
Distributed Large-Scale Tensor Decomposition. Location/date: TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, December 2016.
Distributed Large-Scale Tensor Decompositions in Collaborative Networks. Location/date: 8th Conference on Three-Way Methods in Chemistry and Psychology (TRICAP 2015), May 2015.
Channel Estimation for Millimeter-Wave Very Large MIMO Systems. Location/date: EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, April 2015.

Other

IEEE Senior Member;
Elected Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (since January 2018)
Research Fellow of the CNPq (the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications)
Ad-hoc consultant for CAPES and CNPq Brazilian public funding agencies (2011-present)
Frequent Reviewer for several conferences (ICASSSP, EUSIPCO, CAMSAP, SAM, SPAWC, ISWCS, GLOBECOM, ASILOMAR-SSC, etc…)