Bio Sketch

André L. F. de Almeida is a Full Professor in the Department of Teleinformatics Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. He received dual Ph.D. degrees in 2007 from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. He held visiting professorships at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis during 2012–2013, 2018–2019, and 2022–2024. His research interests include signal processing for communications, sensor array and multichannel signal processing, multilinear algebra, and wireless communication networks, with particular emphasis on tensor decompositions and their applications to wireless communications. He has authored or co-authored over 300 journal and conference papers, six book chapters, and is a co-inventor of seven international patents.

Prof. Almeida currently serves as a Senior Area Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee, serving two consecutive terms (2022–2024 and 2025–2027). He also served as an elected member of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multi-Sensor Systems Technical Area Committee (SPMuS TAC) during 2016–2018 and 2019–2022, subsequently serving as Vice-Chair (2023–2024) and currently as Chair (2025–2027). His previous editorial appointments include Associate Editor positions with the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2012–2016), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2016–2020), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2020–2022). He was also a member of the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee for two consecutive terms (2015–2018 and 2018–2021) and served as IEEE SPS Director-at-Large for Regions 7 and 9 (2022–2023). In January 2025, he was appointed Chief Editor of IEEE SPS SigPort for the 2025–2027 term.