Ange Joel Nounga Njanda

Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal da Bahia

Ange has an engineering degree from the National Polytechnic School of Douala, Cameroon, followed by a master's degree in data science from the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Cameroon. Ange also worked as a research intern at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil.

Their research interests include network design and planning, 5G Open RAN, network optimization, quantum network optimization, hybrid classical–quantum network design, and machine learning applied to telecommunications networks.

Davi Juvêncio Gomes de Sousa

SENAI CIMATEC

Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica e pesquisador no SENAI CIMATEC, com atuação em comunicações ópticas e tecnologias quânticas. Possui experiência em sistemas ópticos coerentes, processamento digital de sinais (DSP) e implementações em hardware utilizando FPGA e ASIC. Atualmente, desenvolve pesquisas relacionadas à comunicação quântica, incluindo sistemas de distribuição quântica de chaves por variáveis contínuas (CV-QKD), com foco na integração entre tecnologias ópticas, processamento de sinais e implementações em hardware.

Ana Júlia Fernandes de Oliveira Barros

Federal University of the São Francisco Valley (UNIVASF)

Ana Júlia Fernandes de Oliveira Barros is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Federal University of the São Francisco Valley (UNIVASF), Brazil. She holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), and an M.Sc. Ph.D. and post doc research in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Her research focuses on photonics, optical waveguides, integrated photonic devices, and electromagnetic modeling, with international research experience at IMEC and KU Leuven, Belgium. Her current work explores advanced photonic technologies and their applications to emerging quantum technologies.