Vania V. Estrela
Faculty/Researcher, Telecommunications Department
FLUMINENSE FFEDERAL UNIVERSITY

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Dr. Vania V. Estrela  has ample experience teaching postgraduate and undergraduate courses. B.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). M.Sc. from the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Brazil. M.Sc. in ECE at Northwestern University, USA; and Ph.D. in ECE from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL, USA. Taught at DePaul University, USA, and Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF), Brazil. She was a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IPRJ)/State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in Brazil. She works at Universidade Federal Fluminense's (UFF) Department of Telecommunications. She has proposed and participated in various pedagogical projects for the specialties of “Computer Engineering” at UENF, “Computer Technology” at Universidade Estadual da Zona Oeste (UEZO)/UERJ and ”Material Science and Engineering with emphasis on Polymers” also at UEZO/UERJ. Research interests include Cyber-Physical Systems, Signal/Image/Video Processing, Multimedia, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Electronic Instrumentation, Computer Architecture, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Modelling/ Simulation, Sustainable Projects, Smart Designs, Inverse Problems, Communications, Motion Estimation and Understanding, Artificial Intelligence, and Geoprocessing. She edits and reviews for several prestigious publishers. She is engaged in Humanitarian Engineering, Technology Transfer, STEAM Education, Environmental Issues, Digital Inclusion, and all UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has served as editor of more than 15 books and special issues and on a plethora of Technical and Organizational Committees and is a member of IEEE.