Valdemar Cardoso da Rocha Jr. received his BSc degree inelectrical and electronics engineering from the Escola Politécnica,Recife, Brazil, in 1970; and his PhD degree in electronics from theUniversity of Kent at Canterbury, England, in 1976. In 1976, hejoined the faculty of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, as an Associate Professor and founded the Electrical Engineering Postgraduate Program. He has been a consultant to both the Brazilian Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science andTechnology on postgraduate education and research in electricalengineering. He was the Chairman of the Electrical EngineeringCommittee in the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development for two terms. He is a founding member,former President, and Emeritus Member of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEECommunications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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