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SMARTNESS congratulates Prof. Fernando J. Von Zuben and researcher Heictor Costa, members of the Center, for receiving the Best Paper Award at the Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (CBIC 2025). The awarded paper, titled “Hybrid Offline–Online UAV Optimal Path Planning and Outburst Dynamic Autonomous Behavior”, was recognized by the CBIC committee for its scientific relevance and practical impact in the fields of computational intelligence and autonomous robotics.

Between October 27 and 30, 2025, Flávio Geraldo Coelho Rocha (UFG), researcher at SMARTNESS, carried out a series of technical visits and scientific activities in Europe, with stops in Italy and Hungary. These initiatives reinforce the Center’s commitment to fostering international collaboration and advancing research on the evolution of 5G and 6G networks.

At the end of October, Tariqul Islam, PhD student and member of SMARTNESS, visited Barcelona, Spain, to present a co-authored poster at the 27th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2025).

SMARTNESS had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Antoni Ivanov and Dr. Atanas Vlahov from the Technical University of Sofia (TU-Sofia, Bulgaria) during their visit to Brazil on October 27th, 2025, as part of ongoing collaborations with Brazilian universities.

SMARTNESS welcomed a delegation from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) on September 29th, 2025, as part of a series of initiatives carried out in partnership with the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL). The visit aimed to strengthen cooperation in research, innovation, and the development of telecommunications standards.

We are delighted to announce that Dr.  Mischa Dohler – VP Emerging Technologies at Ericsson in Silicon Valley and world-renowned expert in immersive internet, 6G and wireless communications – successfully delivered his acclaimed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer at FEEC/UNICAMP on Monday, 29 September 2025, entitled “The Dawn of an Immersive Internet: AR, AI & API on the Road to 6G”.  

On September 10, 2025, the UNICAMP hosted the Post-Docs Meeting on Research Management. This event was designed to spark dialogue, share experiences, and demonstrate the best research management practices. One of the event’s highlights was the Engineering Research Center SMARTNESS, which was recognized by UNICAMP’s Grant Office as a success story.

Professor Hugo E. H. Figueroa, Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at Unicamp and Partnerships Coordinator of SMARTNESS, and Professor Luiz F. Bittencourt, Education and Dissemination Coordinator of the project, have been included in the list of the world’s most influential scientists.

At SIGCOMM 2025, one of ACM's leading conferences on data communication, SMARTNESS participated with several researchers in the conference organization, as well as with multiple contributions in the poster and demo sessions. The group presented its latest studies on RAN disaggregation, SmartNIC-based emulation, digital twins, federated learning, drones network emulation, and cloud gaming, reaffirming its strong presence in next-generation networking research.

On August 27, SMARTNESS welcomed Professors Liliam Carrete and Douglas Zampieri, FAPESP’s new Technology, Partnerships and Innovation Managers, at UNICAMP. The visit included presentations on the center’s strategic vision, achievements from the first two years, and future plans, as well as demos such as the UNetyEmu drone simulator and holographic VR streaming