Summary
Received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Federal University of Pará (UFPA) – Brazil, in 2001, 2003 and 2007, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering.
He was researcher member at the Applied Electromagnetism Laboratory (LEA – UFPA) from 1997 until 2006, where he had engaged in several projects in telecommunication area. In period 2004-2005 he had been a faculty member as substitute professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UFPA.
In 2006, he was a researcher in the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC Tec/Porto – Portugal).
From 2008 to beginning of 2015, he was a titular professor at the Universidade Paulista (UNIP-Manaus) – Brazil having coordinated the Computer Science and Information Systems courses in the period from Aug / 2010 to Aug / 2011.
From 2007 to beginning of 2016, he was a coworker of the INDT, Institute of Technology Development – Brazil, where he had been working in several R&D projects. His main research topics are Wireless Communication, System Simulation, Ray-Tracing Techniques, Radio Propagation, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques.
Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research (Brazil), working in projects related to 5G and transport networks.
Achievements & Awards
Best Paper Award in the Undergraduate Research Project Category at the XL Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (SBrT22), Santa Rita do Sapucaí-MG, Brazil, 2022
Paper: Performance of Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks under Rayleigh and Rician fading.
Authors: Thaissa Ueoka, Daynara Souza, Marx Freitas, André Cavalcante, and João Costa.
Tele.Síntese Awards – Innovation in Communications 2013
Second Prize in the category Software and Services Provider for the INdT’s project “MCETV – Mobile Coexistence Enablers in TV White Spaces”.
Momento Editorial received 165 candidate projects in 2013.
Best Paper Award of the 2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Guimarães-Portugal, 2011
Paper: Molé: a Scalable, User-Generated WiFi Positioning Engine.
Authors: Jonathan Ledlie, Jun-geun Park, Dorothy Curtis, André Cavalcante, Leonardo Camara, and Robson Vieira.
CAPES Sandwich Doctoral Program, 2006
Ph.D scholarship for 6-month period in Porto (Portugal).
Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC/Porto – Portugal).
Vale Estudar Award, Vale Company, 2001
Second prize in the course Electrical Engineering. Award assigned the best students in each course at Federal University of Pará (UFPA, Brazil).
André Mendes Cavalcante 