Darli Mello studied Electrical Engineering at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany, and at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where he graduated in 2000. In 2002, he received his M.Sc. degree from the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany. During his master's studies, he conducted experimental and theoretical research at Siemens' laboratories in Munich. In 2006, he received a Ph.D. degree from UNICAMP. 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 a member of the Electrical Engineering Department (ENE) at the University of Brasilia (UnB) as an Assistant Professor. Since March 2014, he has served as an associate professor in the Department of Communications (DECOM) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at Unicamp. From January 2019 to January 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. His main research interests are optical transmission and networking. Darli Mello served as a TPC member of the major optical communications conferences. He is currently a TPC member of OFC and ECOC. He was the TPC co-chair of SBrT 2011, LAOP 2016, LAOP 2018, SPPCOM 2023, IPC 2023, IPC 2024, and IPC 2025 (optical communications and networks track). He is a co-author, with Fabio Barbosa, of the book "Digital Coherent Optical Systems: Architecture and Algorithms," published by Springer Nature in 2021.