Personal Presentation

Manuel Alberto Pereira Ricardo has Licenciatura, M.Sc. and PhD (2000) degrees in Electrical and Computers Engineering (EEC), major of Telecommunications, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).

Manuel Ricardo is a full professor at FEUP where he teaches courses on Mobile Communications and Computer Networks. He is also the Director of the Electrical and Computers Engineering Department.

At INESC TEC, he coordinated the Wireless Networks area (2001-2011), the Center for Telecommunications and Multimedia (2011-2018), was member of the Board of Directors (2018-2021), and is currently an associate director focused on telecommunications. He created the Portuguese Thematic Network on Mobile Communications (RTCM, 2004). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the ns-3 communications network simulator consortium. He participated in 30+ research projects and has 150+ articles published.

His areas of interest are telecomunications systems, mobile communications, quality of service, traffic engineering, resource management, network congestion control and performance evaluation.