Bio

Name: Raúl T. Aquino Santos

Nationality: Mexicana

Place and date of birth: Manzanillo, Colima, May 23 1965 

Raúl Santos Aquino was born in Manzanillo Colima, Mexico on May 23, 1965. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Colima from 1983 to 1988.

He completed postgraduate studies in Applied Physics in Electronic and Telecommunications at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE)
from 1988 to 1990.

From 1990 to 1996, he was Head of Networks and Telecommunications at the University of Colima and from 1996 to 2000 he was Director of the Telematics School  at the
University of Colima.

From 2000 to 2005, Raúl Aquino carried on his doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield, England. In 2007, he finished Postdoctoral Studies in Networking and Telecommunications at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, CICESE, and in 2008, he finished his Postdoctoral studies in Networking and Telecommunications at the Department of Telecommunications of UNAM.

Currently, Raul Aquino is an adviser in the Inter-Institutional Evaluation of Higher Education (CIEES) and the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Committees.

He is a member of the Academic Committee of Technical and Thematic Network “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)” of CONACYT and also a member of the National System of Researchers (Level 1).

He has published 6 books, 12 chapters of books and over 30 articles in international journals and conferences. Currently, his areas of interest are the design, development, simulation and implementation of wireless telecommunication networks: local area networks (WiFi), metropolitan area networks (WiMAX), and wireless sensor networks.