Principal Investigator
Associate Researchers
SMARTNESS 2030 Project Management Structures
Deputy Director & Co-PI
Maria Valéria Marquezini received her Master of Science (Physics) degree in 1990 and Doctor of Science (Physics) degree in 1995 from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Between 1995-97 she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Materials Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), conducting research activities in the field of laser engineering and electronic processes in semiconductors. From 1997-99, she worked as an associate researcher at the Physics Institute, UNICAMP. Since 2000, she has been working in the research department of Ericsson in Brazil, where she has managed over 100 research projects developed in partnership with universities in the telecommunications domain, ranging from fixed to wireless technologies, and devices to network technologies. Currently, she is a Master Researcher in the Network Automation and Core Networks sector of Ericsson Research, responsible for coordinating the portfolio of research projects in cooperation with academia in Brazil. Research areas of interest are 6G enabling technologies and industry-university cooperation.
Education and Dissemination Coordinator & Co-leader
Luiz Bittencourt is an Associate Professor at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Luiz was awarded with the IEEE ComSoc Latin America Young Professional Award in 2013. He acts on the organization of several conferences in the cloud and edge computing topics, and in several technical program committees. He also serves as associate editor for the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, for the Computers and Electrical Engineering and the Internet of Things journals, for the Journal of Network and Systems Management, and for IEEE Networking Letters. His main interests are in resource management and scheduling in cloud, edge, fog computing, and their synergy towards the computing continuum.
Deputy Education and Dissemination Coordinator
Principal Researcher & Co-leader
Fabio Luciano Verdi is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar). He received his Master degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering both from University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He was a visitor researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology from 2021 to 2022. He has been working on data centers, cloud computing, SDN, and data plane programmability. He is the Coordinator of the LERIS Research Group and has been leading projects in the areas of computer network monitoring, virtual resources, and cloud infrastructures.
Associate Researcher & Co-leader
Since 2011, Daniel Macêdo Batista is Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), the major institution of higher learning and research in Brazil. He received his Computer Science (2003) degree from Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, MSc in Computer Science (2006) and PhD in Computer Science (2010) degrees from State University of Campinas (Unicamp). Prof. Daniel received the title of "Livre Docente", equivalent to Associate Professor, in Computer Networks from the University of São Paulo in 2017. Prof. Daniel has published 100+ refereed papers. Currently, his main research interests are: IoT Security, B5G, and Data Analytics applied to Computer Networks.
Associate Professor at DCA-FEEC-Unicamp
Head of the Research Group on Applied Security (ReGrAS) at FEEC/Unicamp, Dr. Marco Aurelio Amaral Henriques is a tenured Associate Professor at DCA-FEEC-Unicamp (University of Campinas) since 1996. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Juiz de Fora Federal University - MG - Brazil (1986), an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Chiba (National) University - Japan (1990), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Chiba (National) University - Japan (1993). Previously, he worked as a researcher and Associate Professor at the Information Engineering Department, Shinshu (National) University - Japan (1993 - 1996). He has been working on several projects with private and public institutions in the areas of applied security, applied cryptography, digital identity management and cryptographic protocols.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP
Prof. Ricardo Gudwin is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas - Brazil. He was born in Campinas-SP, Brazil, in 1967 and received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1996, all of them from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas - Brazil. His current research interests include the study of cognitive architectures, cognitive systems, intelligence and intelligent systems, intelligent agents, semiotics, and computational semiotics.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP
Fernando J. Von Zuben is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, Brazil. The main topics of his research are computational intelligence, multivariate data analysis, and machine learning. He coordinates open-ended research projects on these topics, tackling real-world problems in information technology, decision-making, pattern recognition, and discrete and continuous optimization. He is IEEE Senior Member, has completed the supervision of 60 Master and Doctoral students, and has published 330 papers in journals and conferences in these research areas.
