Arthur S. de Sena

D.Sc. | RAN System Developer | Editor, IEEE Communications Letters

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About Me

Dr. Arthur S. de Sena is a Radio Access Network (RAN) System Developer at Ericsson in Lund, Sweden. His work focuses on studying and developing advanced features for 5G NR and 6G RAN. He has extensive experience in wireless communications, with a background rooted in cutting-edge research on next-generation wireless technologies. He has a strong publication record and technical leadership experience in numerous international collaborations involving academic and research institutions.

Prior to joining industry, Dr. Sena was a postdoctoral researcher with the 6G Flagship at the University of Oulu, Finland (2023–2026). He also served as a researcher at the AI and Digital Science Research Center at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2022–2023). From 2019 to 2022, he was a junior researcher in the Cyber-Physical Systems Group at LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland. He received his D.Sc. degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from LUT in 2022, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Teleinformatics and Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, in 2019 and 2017, respectively. During his undergraduate studies, he was an exchange student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA.

Dr. Sena is a recipient of the Nokia Foundation Award (2020), the LUT Research Foundation Award (2020), and the IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award (2022). He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and conferences, serves as an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and is a member of the IEEE Communications Society.

Expertise Areas

  • Wireless communications
  • 5G/6G RAN baseband systems
  • Programming and simulation
  • Optimization and machine learning
  • Signal processing
  • Performance analysis

Education

Doctor of Science in Electrical Engineering (with distinction)

2019 – 2022

University: Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland

Dissertation: Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces and Advanced Multiple Access Techniques for Multi-Antenna Wireless Communication Systems

Supervisors: Prof. Pedro H. J. Nardelli, Prof. Daniel B. da Costa, Prof. Petar Popovski

Master of Science in Teleinformatics Engineering

2018 – 2019

University: Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil

Master’s Thesis: Design and performance enhancement of multi-cluster multi-user massive MIMO-NOMA networks

Supervisor: Prof. Daniel B. da Costa

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

2012 – 2017

University: Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil

Bachelor’s Thesis (in Portuguese): Analysis of OFDM Systems with Index Modulation and Non-Linear Power Amplifiers

Supervisor: Prof. Carlos Alexandre Rolim Fernandes

Exchange Program in Computer Engineering

2014 – 2015

University: Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Supervisor: Prof. Bonnie Haferkamp

Awards & Recognitions

Publications

Journal Papers

Magazine Papers

Contact

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