Rafael Kunst

Rafael Kunst is a professor and Researcher at the Applied Computing Graduate Program of the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. He is currently the chair of the Applied Computing Department at Unisinos. He holds a Ph. D. and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, both received from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He is a level 2 productive researcher at the Brazilian Research Council, which is a grant awarded to the top Brazilian researchers in each area of research. He is also an ad-hoc consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Education. His current research interests involve next-generation communications, such as 5G and 6G, military communications, Machine Learning, and Industry 4.0. He has extensive experience as a consultant, coordinating and participating in projects with companies from Brazil and abroad. In 2009 and 2010, he was an invited researcher at the University of Pisa, Italy, and in 2020 he was a visiting professor at the IBM Watson IoT Center – Munich, Germany.