Prof. Daniel B. da Costa

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

A career across
ideas and borders.

Professional Experience

Dec. 2025-Present

RDIA Chair Professor of Wireless Communications, KFUPM.

Aug. 2025-Present

Acting Director - Interdisciplinary Research Center for Communication Systems and Sensing (IRC-CSS), KFUPM.

Jan. 2024-Dec. 2025

Distinguished University Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Mar. 2022-Jan. 2024

Principal Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2021-2022

Full Professor at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Douliou, Taiwan.

2018-2022

Associate Professor at Federal University of Ceará (UFC), CE, Brazil.

Sep. 2019-Nov. 2019

Visiting Researcher at Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey.

May 2019-Aug. 2019

Visiting Faculty at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Jan. 2019-Apr. 2019

Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland.

2010-2018

Assistant Professor at Federal University of Ceará (UFC), CE, Brazil.

Sep. 2009-Jan. 2010

Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Wireless Research Group of Telecommunications, UFC, CE, Brazil.

Jul. 2008-Jul. 2009

Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Wireless Communications Research Group, INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada.

Education

May 2006-Jun. 2008

Ph.D. Degree Electrical Engineering, Area: Telecommunications, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil.

Feb. 2004-Apr. 2006

M.Sc. Degree Electrical Engineering, Area: Telecommunications, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), SP, Brazil.

1999-2003

B.Sc. Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.