"Armando Nolasco Pinto received the Graduation degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, in 1994, and received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999, both from the University of Aveiro. He joined the Institute of Telecommunications, as a Researcher in the Optical Communications and Photonics Group, and the Electronic, Telecommunications, and Informatics Department of the University of Aveiro, as a Lecturer, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic, Telecommunications, and Informatics, University of Aveiro and leads the Optical Communications and Photonics Group at the Aveiro site of the Institute of Telecommunications. His research interests include high-speed optical communication systems and networks. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Pinto is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)."

Nuno Silva received a degree in Physics from the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, and a master's degree in Physics from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Aveiro University for research in quantum cryptography in optical-fiber communication systems in 2013.

Since 2019, is an Auxiliary Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações where he is developing expertise in the field of quantum cryptography as a resource for secure multiparty computation. He is actively participating in several R&D projects. He teaches courses related to quantum optics and technologies at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro (https://www.ua.pt/fis/person/80331341). Currently, he is a researcher with the Optical Quantum Communications and Technologies Group (https://www.it.pt/Groups/Index/72). His current research interests include Optical Communications; Nonlinear Classical Optics; Optical Detection; Information Theory; Secure Multiparty Computation; Quantum Effects in Optical Waveguides; Single and Entangled Photonic States Generation and Detection; Practical Quantum Cryptography; Quantum Key Distribution, Quantum Bit Commitment, Quantum Oblivious Transfer; Quantum Oblivious Key Distribution; Quantum Homodyne and Heterodyne Detection.

Nuno Silva is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Applied Sciences Journal as Topic Editor (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/topic_editors). He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the section Optics and Lasers in Applied Sciences Journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/sectioneditors/optics). Currently, he is also Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Advances in Photonic Technologies and Cryptographic Applications" at Applied Sciences Journal (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Photonic_Technologies_and_Cryptographic).

My main research focus is on experimental quantum communications, specializing in quantum key distribution, propagation of entanglement, optical fibers and associated optoelectronic instrumentation.

Possui graduação em Física pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (1999), mestrado em Física pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (2000) e doutorado em Física pela University of Notre Dame (2006). Atualmente é Professora Associada do Departamento de Engenharia de Teleinformática da Universidade Federal do Ceará. Tem experiência na área de Física, com ênfase em Óptica Quântica, atuando principalmente em Computação Quântica.

Graduado em Engenharia Eletrônica pela PUC-RJ. Trabalha com TI há mais de 32 anos, tanto com HW quanto SW. Co-autor de patente sobre cibersegurança. Submissão de patente sobre caching para assistentes baseados em voz. Empreendedor e mentor da Endeavor, Cross-systems IT Specialist, co-autor de Redbook sobre programação em computação distribuída. Fundador do IBM Brazil Garage, IBM AoT - Academy of Technology WW Geo Leader. Professor visitante em Inovação Rápida na Fundação Dom Cabral e fundador do Brazil 5G Telecommunications Solutions Lab. Atuação em digital contact tracing, simulação de pooling de exames PCR e insights acústicos de padrão de tosse para COVID-19. Liderou estudos locais anuais da AoT no Brasil sobre Analytics, SDN, IoT, Blockchain, Robôs, Quantum, Criptografia Homomórfica e 5G. Atualmente, é Distinguished Engineer, Diretor de Inovação da IBM LA, Co-CTO mundial dos IBM Client Centers e líder do 5G Brazil Telecommunications Solutions Lab. Atua em Open RAN, 5G, sendo representante mundial da IBM no TIP (Telecom Infra Project). Seus hobbies incluem bicicletas elétricas, séries de TV, história, geografia, e cleantech.

Bacharelado em Eng. Química pela UNICAP-PE. Bacharelado e Mestrado em física na UFPE-PE. Doutoranda em Teoria de Informaçao Quântica no ICFO - Espanha. Atualmente no time de Quantum da IBM.