Valdemar C. da Rocha, Jr.

Valdemar C. da Rocha, Jr. received his B.Sc. (1970) in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the Escola Politecnica, Recife, Brazil, and his Ph.D. (1976) in Electronics from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is a founding member, former President (2004-2008) and Emeritus Member (2008) of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society. He is also a Life Senior Member (2013) of the
IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society and a Fellow (1992) of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. In 2005 he co-authored the book entitled Communication Systems, Springer. His research interests include information theory, error-correcting codes and cryptography.