Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (S’01 - M’06 - SM’06), is a Professor in the Department of Informatics of the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Associated Lab, Portugal. He received a five-year B.S. degree (licentiate) in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Portugal. His main research interests include delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, high-speed networks, e-Learning, e-Health, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. He is the leader of the NetGNA Research Group (http://mst.it.ubi.pt). He is the Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software. He has authored or coauthored over 170 technical papers in refereed international journals and conferences, book chapters, a book, and a patent. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications, the editor-in-chief of the Recent Patent on Telecommunications Journal, and also served several Special Issues as a Guest Editor (IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, IET Communications, Journal of Communications, etc.). He has served as General Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, and symposium Chair for many international conferences, including IEEE ICC/GLOBECOMs, CAMAD, MAN, ITST, ICNC, SoftCOM, among others. He participated in tens of international TPCs and several editorial review boards (including IEEE Communications Magazine, International Journal of Communications Systems, etc.). He is a licensed professional engineer (as a senior member), and he is member of ACM SIGCOMM, a member of the Internet Society, an IARIA fellow, and a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Education Society.