First International Workshop on Personalized Networks
	Keynote speaker Dr. Jorge Pereira, European Commission Resume Dr. Jorge M. Pereira obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa, Portugal in 1983 and 1987, respectively; he received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1993, with a thesis on Spread Spectrum Synchronization in Time-Varying Channels. Between 1983 and 1988, he taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST as Full Lecturer. In 1994, he became Assistant Professor of IST, from where he is now on leave of absence. From 1988 to 1990, he worked at LinCom Corp., Los Angeles, in a NASA project on space-to-space communications, and on synchronization issues. From 1991 to 1993, he worked for Caltrans and PATH on Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). From 1993 to 1996, at GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA, he was responsible for Communication Analysis and Simulation in the National IVHS Architecture FHWA contract, and represented GTE at the TIA IVHS Section, and in the High Speed Data Systems workgroup of the CDMA Development Group. At the same time, he was involved in the first CDPD trials in the San Francisco Bay Area, involving location-based applications. Since September 1996, he has been with the European Commission, DG XIII, now DG Information Society, as Scientific Officer in the area of Mobile and Personal Communications. He is involved in Third, B3G and Fourth Generation systems; Broadband Wireless Access systems; Spectrum and Regulatory issues; Reconfigurable/Cognitive Networks and Dynamic Spectrum Management; WLANs, ad hoc, mesh and wireless sensor networks; PANs; UWB; Terrestrial Positioning Technologies and Location-based Mobile Value Added Services; High Altitude Platforms; Wireless IP; and Emergency and Crisis Management. He received the SDR Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR. He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Member of the IEEE and of the ACM. He has been very active in the organization of major conferences, namely VTC, PIMRC, WPMC, ICC and GLOBECOM.
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