Antonio Navarro

Biography

Antonio Navarro was born in Mozambique in 1966. He graduated (five years first degree) in electrical engineering from Coimbra University, Portugal in 1989 and received the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently Professor at the Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering Department at Aveiro University, Portugal, where he lectures courses on coding and transmission of video/TV signals, on radio planning as well as on propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves at undergraduate and graduate levels. He was also invited professor in several foreign institutions namely in Carnegie Mellon-USA. In the 2nd semester of 2004, he was on sabbatical leave at University of Southern California-USA. He supervised more than 50 pos-grad students. The two most recent theses are: A 500W Amplifier for UHF Band and A Patch Antenna for Digital TV at 754 MHz. He was also Chief Technology Officer at WiVDO Lda, a technological Portuguese SME company between 2009 and 2012.
His research interests are on information theory, rate-distortion, digital television, RF measurements, video coding, and reliable wireless transmission of video based multimedia services. He was Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and has served as a reviewer of several IEEE journals (IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans Image Processing, IEEE Trans Multimedia, IEEE Trans Broadcasting, IEEE Trans on VLSI, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Networks) and conferences. He has actively been involved in some DVB TMs and in some MPEG AdGs. Antonio has participated and led successfully 50 national and European projects and co-authored over 150 scientific papers and four granted patents, one in USA. He was five times scientifically awarded, mostly from IEEE. Antonio was the Leader of SUIT, an European IST-FP6 project (IST-4-028042) in the area of multiple description scalable video coding over DVB-T/H and WiMAX convergent networks with a budget of 5.5Meuros.
He led the Commissioning work of more than 140 DVB-T transmitters, filters and antennas in Portugal in 2009-2010. He also led the refarming work (changing frequencies) of 140 transmitters and filters in 2010. Recently, he has been invited to design complete broadcasting networks in several African countries in the framework of the migration strategy to digital. He has a strong knowledge on DVB-T and DVB-T2 technologies, including broadcasting network planning and therefore, he gave tutorials on digital television to spectrum regulators, broadcasters and network operators in Portugal and in several foreign countries.