Hirley ALVES Brazilian, male, single, 31 years old. Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) Born 02.03.86, Lapa-PR, Brazil University of Oulu (UOULU) Email: hirley.alves@oulu.fi P.O.Box 4500 Phone: +358 (0) 45 189 6110 90014 OULU FINLAND Homepages: http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~halves/ https://sites.google.com/site/hyalves/ Educational Background 4.2015 onward 8.2011 3.2015 3. 2010 3.2011 Post-doctoral fellow at Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu (UOULU). Research Scientist and doctoral student in a double degree program between University of Oulu, Finland and Federal University of Technology Paraná, Brazil. Under supervision of Prof. Matti Latva-aho and co-supervision of Prof. Richard Demo Souza. Thesis is entitled On Performance Analysis of Full-duplex Networks, and was defended on 27.03.2015. M.Sc. degree from the Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the UTFPR, under supervision of Professor Richard Demo Souza. I ve been working on the application resource allocation techniques and HARQ mechanisms to cooperative communications. Defended on 03.03.2011. 7.2004 12.2009 B.Sc. degree from the UTFPR, in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications. In my graduation thesis, also under supervision of Professor Richard Demo Souza, I developed a Didactic Software-Defined Radio Platform, using acoustic signals, implemented in a FPGA kit and a PC. 1.2008 2.2009 Under-graduation exchange at University of Technology of Troyes, France, (UTT) on Telecommunications Engineering and Information Systems. Special Training Real Time Embedded Systems FPGAs, ARM, MSP, HC/HCS, 8051 family. Object-Oriented Programming and programming Languages: C/C++, C#, Python, VHDL, Matlab Software and SOs: Windows, Linux, Mathematica, Matlab/Octave, Python/IPython Additional post-graduation courses: Introduction to dynamical systems and chaos (winter, 2014), Santa Fé Institute s Massive Open Online Course, March 2014. Linguistic skills Portuguese Mother tongue French B2 (self-assessment) English C2 (self-assessment) Finnish A1(self-assessment) 1 of 5 March 31, 2017
Current position 04.2015 onward Post-doctoral researcher at CWC, UOULU. Work-package leader on 5Gto10G Project. Current research focuses on design and analysis of ultra reliable, low latency communication networks in the context of the machine type communications and 5G. Design and application of FD communication systems in future wireless networks. Experience for other research environment For little more than 6 months (06 12.2016), working under supervision of Prof. Ari Pouttu (University of Oulu) on secure communication protocols for smart grids. Projects Funding, source and period SAFE [AkA-ICT2023] (2016-2018) High5 [Tekes] (2017-2018) 5Gto10G [Tekes] (2015-2017) Juliet [AkA] (2015-2016) Funera [WiFIUS] (2015-2016) Research visits (duration) - Prof. Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark (3 days, 12.2016) - Prof. Richard D. Souza, UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (6 weeks, 06-07.2016) - Prof. Michel Yacoub, Paulo Cardieri, Unicamp, Campinas, and Prof. Richard D. Souza, UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (2 weeks, 08.2015) Courses - 07.2016 Keynote: Full-duplex communications and future wireless networks, UTFPR, Brazil - 08.2015 Invited intensive course entitled Full-duplex communications and its application on 5G, Unicamp, Brazil - 08.2015 Keynote: Full-duplex communications and its application on 5G, UNESP-SJBV, Brazil 03.2017 (onward) Onel Lopez, Phd student, CWC, UOULU (co-supervisor with Prof. Matti Latva-aho) 01.2017 (onward) Mohammad Sherab, Phd student, CWC, UOULU (cosupervisor with Prof. Matti Latva-aho 09.2016 (onward) Parisa Nouri, Phd student, CWC, UOULU (co-supervisor with Prof. Matti Latva-aho) 07.2016 (onward) Endrit Dosti, Msc thesis, CWC, UOULU 08.2016-02.2017 Onel Lopez, MSc thesis, UFPR, Brazil (co-supervisor with Prof. Evélio Fernandez) 06 11.2016 Mohammad Sherab, Msc thesis, CWC, UOULU 2016 Endrit Dosti, summer trainee, CWC, UOULU 2015 Ankit Regmi, summer trainee, CWC, UOULU Conferences (Organization) - Workshop chair at IEEE Intern. Conference on Communications (ICC), Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks, Paris, May 2017. - Workshop chair at European Wireless 2016: Full-Duplex Techniques for 5G and Beyond - Co-track program chair at STEMCOM 2016 2 of 5 March 31, 2017
Previous professional experience - Special Session Organizer and Chair at IEEE CAMAD 2015: Duplexing techniques for 5G 08.2011 03.2015 Research assistant (full-time doctoral student) at the CWC. Doctoral thesis entitled On the performance analysis of Full-duplex networks. Projects Funding, source and period Juliet [AkA] (2013-2015) Duplo [EU] (2014-2015) BeFemto [EU] (2011-2012) LoCON [Tekes/AkA] (2011-2012) Research grant awards Infotech Oulu [University of Oulu] (2012-2014); Nokia Foundation (2013); Tauno Toning Foundation (2013); Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö (2012); Otto A. Malm Foundation (2012); Elisa Oy. Foundation (2012); Riita and Jorma J. Takanen Foundation (2012); Capes/CNPq (Brazil) Doctoral Scholarship (2011); Capes/CNPq (Brazil) Scholarship (2010-2011); Capes/CNPq (Brazil) Scholarship (2009-2010). 2014 M.Sc. Edgar E. B. Olivo (Unicamp), 3 months research visit to CWC 2014 M.Sc. Diana P. M. Osorio (Unicamp), 3 months research visit to CWC Research Visits (duration) - Prof. Richard D. Souza, UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (1 week 08.2014); - Prof. Paulo Cardieri, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (1 week 10.2013). - Prof. Richard D. Souza, UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (2 weeks 10.2013); - Prof. Mérouane Debbah, CentraleSupélec, Paris, France (3 weeks 03.2012) - Prof. Daniel B. da Costa, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Brazil (3 weeks 09.2013) - Prof. Richard D. Souza, UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil (3 months 11.2012 01.2013) 10.2009 08.2011 Capes/CNPq scholarship granted for research activities on wireless communications at UTFPR. 07.2008 12.2008 Internship: Consignity Solutions, Versailles, France. Activities: R&D of hardware and firmware. Electronic project assistant. 7.2007 01.2008 Internship at Laboratory of Advanced Control Systems at UTFPR, Brazil. Activities: R&D in software and R&D of a Meta-database for PETROBRAS SA. Coordinating the interface database and advanced applications. Research funding and supervision Funding My post-doctoral research is funded by three distinct projects: SAFE (ends 9.2018) is an Academy of Finland project, whose main topic is security for machine type communications networks; and HIGH5 a Tekes project in which my main research topic is ultra-reliable, low latency communications and 5G. 3 of 5 March 31, 2017
Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence Tutorial courses - H. Alves and T. Riihonen, " Full-Duplex Communications: State-of-the-Art and Applications", EUCNC, June 2017. - H. Alves and T. Riihonen, "Tutorial: Full-Duplex Techniques for 5G and Beyond", ISWCS, Sept. 2016. - H. Alves and T. Riihonen, "Tutorial: Full-Duplex Techniques for Future Wireless Networks", European Wireless, May 2016. Courses Autumn Course: Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes in Wireless Communications; - 2017 8 ECTS; Masters level course; UOULU; - 07.2016 Keynote: Full-duplex communications and future wireless networks, UTFPR, Brazil - 08.2015 Course: Full-duplex communications and its application to 5G; 30h teaching; Unicamp, Brazil; Keynote: Full-duplex communications and its application to 5G; 2h Course; São Paulo State - 08.2015 University (UNESP), São João da Boa Vista, Brazil Pedagogic Training 2011 Teaching assistance on the discipline of Digital Communications and Wireless Communications, at UTFPR, under supervision of Prof. Richard Demo Souza 2010 Teaching assistance on the discipline of Digital Communications, at UTFPR, under supervision of Prof. Richard Demo Souza 2017 Co-supervising 3 phd students (Onel López, Parisa Nouri, and Mohammad Shehab, CWC, UOULU) 2017 of MSc thesis, Onel Lopez (UFPR, Brazil) Second supervisor (International collaboration) Defense 24.02.2017 2017 of MSc thesis, Endrit Dosti Main supervisor 2016 of MSc thesis, Mohammad Shehab Second supervisor 2015-2016 Summer trainee, main supervision of summer trainees Awards, prizes, honors Nominated to 2015 and 2016 Best Paper Award of Signal Processing Letters, for Performance of Transmit Antenna Selection Physical Layer Security Schemes, published in 2012. Nokia Foundation (2013) Tauno Toning Foundation (2013) Riita and Jorma J. Takanen Foundation (2012) Elisa Oy. Foundation (2012) Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö (2012) Otto A. Malm Foundation (2012) Capes/CNPq (Brazil) Doctoral Scholarship (2011) Capes/CNPq (Brazil) Scholarship (2009-2010) and (2010-2011) Other academic merits Member of the opponent committee of Onel López, together with G. Brante (UTFPR), L. Lolis (UFPR), E. Fernandez (UFPR). Referee for the following journals: IEEE Commun. Mag., IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Veh. Tech., IEEE Trans. On Wireless Commun., IEEE Trans. On Commun., IEEE Commun. Lett., IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., EURASIP J. on Wireless Commun. and Networking. 4 of 5 March 31, 2017
2015 Keynote: Full-duplex communications and its application to 5G, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São João da Boa Vista, Brazil Special Session Chair at STEMCOM 2016: Energy efficient duplexing techniques for 5G Technical Program Chair at STEMCOM 2016 Organizer and Special Session Chair on Camad 2015: Duplexing techniques for 5G Workshop General Chair European Wireless 2016: Full-Duplex Techniques for 5G and Beyond Workshop General Chair ICC 2017 Workshop on Full-Duplex Communications for Future Wireless Networks Scientific and societal impact of research 23 Published (accepted) journals 8 (to be or) Submitted journals and 1 book chapter (final editing). 28 conference papers (21 published/accepted and 4 submitted) Google Scholar: 366 citations, h-index: 9 and i10-index: 8 (in Jan 25, 2017) Research Gate: Score: 21.02 and more than: 1380 reads and 238 citations. (in Jan 25, 2017) 5 of 5 March 31, 2017