FRANCISCO A. O. NASCIMENTO was born in Araruama, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Brasília (UnB), and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a Full Professor at University of Brasilia and he is the head of the Digital Signal Processing Research Group. His research interests include digital signal processing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), instrumentation and embedded electronic systems, and real-time programming. Systems developer proficient in C/C++, C#, Python, and MATLAB.