Darli Mello studied Electrical Engineering at the RWTH–Aachen, Germany, and at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, where he graduated in 2000. In 2002 he received the M. Sc. degree from the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany. During his master's studies, he carried out both experimental and theoretical work at the Siemens research labs in Munich. In 2006 he received the Ph.D. degree from UNICAMP after research stays at the TUM and at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). After his Ph.D. studies, he spent one year with Padtec Optical Components and Systems as a senior technology engineer. From August 2008 to March 2014 he was with the Electrical Engineering Department (ENE) of the University of Brasilia (UnB) as an Assistant Professor. Since April 2014 he has been an Assistant Professor at the Communications Department (DECOM) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), University of Campinas (Unicamp). From January 2019 to January 2020 he was a visiting scholar at the Ginzton at Stanford University, working on coupled SDM transmission. His main research interests are optical transmission and networking. Darli Mello was TPC member of several conferences, including OFC, ACP, ICC and Globecom. He was the TPC co-chair of SBrT 2011, and of the Optical Communications Subcommittee of LAOP 2016. Hi is the TPC co-chair of SPPCOM 2022 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.