Samuel Baraldi Mafra

Samuel Baraldi Mafra (S’12) was born in Curitiba-PR, Brazil, in 1986. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Joinville, Brazil, in 2010, the M.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, in 2012 and the D.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Technology—Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, in 2015, all in electrical engineering. Since September 2015, he has held a Post-Doctoral position at the UFPR. His research interests lie in the broad area of wireless communication theory, with applications to cognitive radio networks and cooperative communications. He is a student member of the IEEE Communications Society and Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT).