Professor Vlad Popescu received the M.Sc. degree in electronics and computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 1999 and 2006, respectively. In 2000, he was with the University of Malmo, Sweden, specializing in multimedia applications for four months. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Research Fellow with the Technical University, Aachen, Germany, where he finished the experimental part of his Ph.D. studies on wireless communication in underground environments from 2004 to 2005. Since 2009, he has been a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy. Since 2000, he is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Computers, Transilvania University of Brasov. He also collaborates close with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari both on research and didactical level. His main research topics of interest are telecommunications, cognitive radio systems, multimedia applications, and data acquisition. Prof. Popescu is member of IEEE BTS, IEEE VTS and IEEE AES and is the chair of the IEEE BTS Chapter in Romania.