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Rosângela Fernandes Coelho holds a Ph.D degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST-Télécom ParisTech), and an M.Sc degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, both in electrical engineering. She joined the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) of Rio de Janeiro in 2002, and is currently an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering Department. Prof. Coelho founded and heads the Laboratory of Acoustic Signal Processing (LASP) at IME. In 2003, she received the University Research Program grant award from CISCO/USA. She served as an editorial board member of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials from 1999 to 2007. Since 2008, she has been responsible for the International Scientific Collaboration IME-ParisTech. Prof. Coelho holds a US patent of an automatic speaker recognition method based on a new speech feature and a stochastic model for speaker classification. Prof. Coelho was president-adjoint of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society, an IEEE Sister Society, from 2008 to 2010. She is also member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS).