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Professors Rafael Pasquini (UFU) and Christian Esteve Rothenberg (SMARTNESS) contributed to the AI in Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop at UdelaR, Uruguay. Organized by MINA, the event explored AI, ML, and networking, featuring a 12-hour course blending theory and hands-on practice.

Phd candidate Md Tariqul Islam awarded the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper for his distinguished work “QoE Evaluation for Emerging Media Applications: Network-Level Analysis and Traffic Modeling.”

The SMARTNESS 2030 Engineering Research Center held several Open Science activities, including a lecture by Prof. Dr. Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros during SMARTNESS HOUR, participation of Dr. Eduardo Sartori in UNICAMP's LOVE DATA DAY, and a presentation on Research Ethics and Open Science.

The SBSeg 2024 was held in São José dos Campos, where researchers from the CPE SMARTNESS presented their latest work. Highlights include Ph.D. student Caio Teixeira's award-winning paper on post-quantum cryptography in vehicular networks and Master's student Rodrigo Pierini's exploration of the Forro14 cipher in programmable hardware. USP student Thiago Ferreira also received an honorable mention for his fuzzing technique paper.

Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez Cesen, and M.Sc. student Arthur J. Simas had their paper "eZtunnel: Leveraging eBPF to Transparently Offload Service Mesh Data Plane Networking" accepted at IEEE CloudNet 2024, in Rio de Janeiro. The research addresses performance bottlenecks in service meshes like Istio, using eBPF to optimize networking traffic in Kubernetes nodes. Experiments show that eZtunnel reduces median latency by over 20% and jitter by nearly 10%.

SMARTNESS researchers have had their paper, "Convolutional Evolutive Granular Neural Network for Image Flow Classification," accepted at the XXV Brazilian Congress of Automation (CBA), 2024. The paper introduces a novel approach combining convolutional neural networks and granular evolutive models to enhance image recognition and classification. CBA 2024, held from October 15 to 18, 2024, is a crucial event for automation and control in Brazil.

Marina Martinelli, a PhD researcher from the SMARTNESS 2030 ERC at UNICAMP, recently participated as a speaker and mediator at Futurecom, Latin America's most significant technology and telecommunications event.

Professor Luiz Bittencourt, SMARTNESS researcher, received CISB funding to attend WARA-PS 2024 in Sweden, where he presented a demo on drone management using edge computing. He also visited Linköping University, held technical meetings at Saab, and visited Ericsson Research in Stockholm.

On September 4th, Ericsson Brazil organized the Ericsson Research Day 2024 event at its headquarters in Indaiatuba. Dr. Maria Valéria Marquezini presented the history of over 25 years and the current landscape of Ericsson's research partnerships in Brazil. Dr. Mateus Santos highlighted the main areas of focus for the team of researchers based in Indaiatuba.

On September 3rd, SMARTNESS received two technical visits at its main lab at FEEC/UNICAMP. During the morning, we had the honor of receiving a delegation of representatives from Ericsson Research, led by Dr. Magnus Frodigh - VP and Head of Ericsson Research. Presentations and discussions touched the vision of 6G and the onvoing research activities. In the afternoon, SMARTNESS received the visit of the UFPA research group led by Prof. Aldebaro. Opportunities of collaboration around joint research interests were discussed, resulting in impact actions ahead.