Bio:
Dr. Jorge M. Pereira obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, 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. Since September 1996, he has been with the European Commission, DG XIII, now DG Information Society and Media, as Scientific Officer in the areas of Mobile and Personal Communications and Broadband for All. He became Principal Scientific Officer in 2005, moving to the area of ICT for Sustainable Growth, with a focus on Energy Efficiency and Emergency and Disaster Management, and is currently working in the area of Embedded Systems and Control, where he is responsible for the area of Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects. He is very much involved in International Cooperation actions. 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 recently taken up the position of Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine.