Future Cities

Ana Aguiar

Ana Cristina Costa Aguiar graduated in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering in 1998 from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto (FEUP) and received a PhD in Engineering (Telecommunication Networks) from the Technical University of Berlin in June 2008. From 1998 to 2001 she worked as a cell planner and optimization engineer for Portuguese and German cellular operators. She currently works at Instituto de Telecomunicações Porto in communication aspects of vehicular networks and efficient data gathering using vehicular and highly volatile wireless ad-hoc networks through collaborations within the scope of projects funded by the CMU Portugal and MIT Portugal programmes. She worked from May 2008 to December 2009 as a senior researcher in building up Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, engaging in project acquisition in the area of Ambient Assisted Living, targeting applied research projects in the areas of energy efficient wireless sensor networks and service-oriented architectures applied to efficient energy use in buildings and intelligent transportation systems. She has coordinated a 9-partner STREP proposal with sum value of 3M€ to the European AAL Joint Programme, and a successful proposal to a Portuguese industrial R&D support programme valued 300k€. She carried out the initial feasibility study on the design of an application-specific energy efficient urban sensor network within the scope of the latter. Her PhD research focused on Quality of Service (QoS) support for differentiated media over wireless channels, traffic and wireless channel modelling and prediction of wireless channel behavior, and was developed mostly within the scope of projects with industrial partners. As a result of her research work she has authored or coauthored several articles in international conferences and holds a patent related to her work on wireless QoS support. Since September 2009 she is Assistant Professor with FEUP, teaching Numeric Methods, Communication Services and graduate Network Services and Architectures.

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António Leitão da Silva

António Leitão da Silva was born in December 1969. He graduated in Police Sciences from Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e de Segurança Interna, holder of Degree in Forensic Medicine from Instituto de Medicina Legal do Porto, Master in Deviant Behavior Psychology and PhD in Psychology from Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. He joined the PSP in 1989 as a cadet-student of the Escola Superior de Polícia. In 1994 he was placed in the Porto Metropolitan Command where he led the 1st, 8th and 9th Squadrons. He was appointed Operational Commissioner of the 1st Division and Head of the Center for Operations. Was commander of the Police of Guimarães from 2004 to 2006. In the course of his professional activity the Intendant Leitão da Silva also served in the United Nations Missions in Western Sahara, Guatemala and East Timor, and, at the service of the European Union, in Ethiopia, Sudan (Darfur) and Kosovo. He is Superintendent of Public Security Police since December 20, 2013 and Commandant of the Municipal Police Porto since December 2007.

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Cristina Queirós

Cristina Queirós is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP) since 1997. She obtained her graduate degree from the same institution in 1988, in the field of Deviant Behaviour Psychology. In 1997, she obtained her PhD with her work focusing on Personality, Emotions and Deviant Behaviour. She was the vice-president of Executive Council of FPCEUP during 2008/10 and she is since September 2012 the coordinator of Research Line "Health and Reabilitation" of Center of Psychology of University of Porto (FCT research center). Since 2000 she collaborates with several masters at UP and other higher schools from Porto and Lisbon teaching about emotions and stress. During 2010-2012 she coordinates at FPCEUP the Master in Psychology of Catastrophe and Trauma and currently co-organizes with Isabel Cambraia several courses at FPCEUP about "Critical Incident Stress Management". She also co-coordinates at FPCEUP, with António José Marques (ESTSP-IPP) the Master in Psychology of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health (2008/2010, 2012/14). Since 2008 she is the co-founder and co-director of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Laboratory (from FPCEUP and ESTSP-IPP www.labrp.com, where she conducts research in the area of Health Psychology and Psychosocial Rehabilitation, in particular in emotional states, stress/burnout and emotion recognition. Currently, she is supervising several PhD and master students, and finished the supervision of 5 PhD thesis and more than 60 master thesis (at FPCEUP, FDUP, ICBAS and FMUL), all working with quantitative methods for addressing stress, burnout, personality traits and emotions in professional fire-fighters, police officers, teachers, physicians and nurses, as well as on rehabilitation of people with schizophrenia and autistic children, using emotions as a therapeutic strategy. Her research interest are the emotional states elicited by the environment and its impact on overall quality of life, especially stress elicited by modern lifestyles (e.g. work-family conflict, road rage) and occupational stress (burnout) across different professional activities. She published several papers and books, and has numerous presentations in congress (both at national and international level), mostly related with stress, burnout and emotions (http://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/publs_pesquisa.querylist?p_codigo=223739).

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Daniel Moura

Daniel Moura graduated in Informatics and Computing Engineering in 2001, received a MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 2006 and a PhD in Informatics Engineering in 2011 from University of Porto. Daniel has 7 years of research experience in the areas of Computer Vision and Medical Imaging, 15 years of software development for both research and industry, and 7 years lecturing computer science classes at the university. During his PhD he was a visiting researcher at École Polytechnique de Montréal and investigated 3D reconstruction of the spine using radiography. Between 2011 and 2013, Daniel was a post-doc researcher at Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial where he pursued his work on computer-vision and machine-learning, mainly in the topics of breast cancer diagnosis and bone-age estimation. He is currently a senior researcher at the Future Cities project, working on the areas of data-mining and computer-vision.

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João Barros

Is the Coordinator of the Center of Competences for Future Cities of University of Porto. Dr. Barros is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto and Founding Director of the Institute for Telecommunications (IT) in Porto, Portugal, which counts almost 100 active members. He was a Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and has been a Visiting Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2008. He also teaches at the Porto Business School and co-founded two recent startups, Streambolico and Veniam, commercializing wireless video and vehicular communication technologies, respectively. Between 2009 and 2012, Dr. Barros served as National Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program, a five-year international partnership funded by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology, with a total budget of 56M Euros. In recent years, João Barros has been Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI of numerous national, European and industry funded projects, co-authoring one book and 145 research papers in the fields of networking, information theory and security, with a special focus on smart city technologies, network coding, physical-layer security, sensor networks, and intelligent transportation systems. Dr. Barros has received several awards, including the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the 2011 IEEE ComSoC and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2012 BES National Innovation Award, and a state-wide best teaching award by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts. Dr. Barros is frequently invited as an expert speaker by international organizations such as the European Commission, OECD, ITU, EuroDIG and IEEE. He also works as an independent consultant for various organizations and projects. Dr. Barros is fluent in Portuguese, German, English, French and Spanish. He received his undergraduate education in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, a performing arts degree in flute from the Music Conservatory of Porto, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany.

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João Paulo Cunha

João Paulo Silva Cunha is Associate Professor (with “Agregação”) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal and senior researcher at the INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering  (www.inescporto.pt) where he recently created the BRAIN – Biomedical Research And INnovation - research group.  He is also affiliated with the Institute for Electronics and Telematics Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal and visiting professor at the Neurology Dep., Faculty of Medicine of the University of Munich, Germany. Prof. Cunha is faculty member of the Carnegie-Mellon|Portugal (CMU-P) program and was faculty member of the Information Networking Institute (INI) of the Carnegie Mellon University between 2007 and 2009 in the framework of the Masters in Information Networking (MSIN) dual degree.
Dr. Cunha earned a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering (1989), a Ph.D. (1996) and an “Agregação” degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering all at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He was the creator (1997) and leader of the “Healthcare Information and systems” R&D group and head of the “Innovative Biomedical Technologies” transverse activity (involving ~ 50 researchers / 17 faculty) of IEETA research institute of the University of Aveiro until 2012 (http://www.ieeta.pt) when he accepted a new challenge at the University of Porto.
Prof. Cunha is senior member of the IEEE (2004) where he joined the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) in 1986 as a student member.  He co-founded in 2007 a spin-off company called Biodevices SA (http://www.biodevices.pt) to bring to the market innovative biomedical technology developed for several years in his lab. He is co-author of more than 200 publications, of which, in the last five years, he has co-authored one book, 13 book chapters and 21 papers in international scientific journals cited on ISI, holding a ‘h-index’ of 8.

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João Peças Lopes

João A. Peças Lopes is Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP). He is presently member of the board of Directors of INESC Porto. He is also Director of the Sustainable Energy Systems PhD program in Portugal and FEUP. He was the leader of several R&D projects, consulting projects and contracts with the industry in Portugal and abroad.
His main domains of research are presently related with large scale integration of renewable power sources, Off-shore wind generation, power system dynamics, microgeneration and microgrids, smartmetering and electric vehicle grid integration. He is author or co-author of more than 250 papers and co-editor and co-author of the book “Electric Vehicle Integration into Modern Power Networks” edited by Springer.

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Joel Silveirinha

Joel is part of Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities organization. This organization within Cisco focuses in creating new solutions to enable new services and a better quality of life for cities and its citizens through technology. Joel is currently involved in developing new Wi-Fi based solutions for Cities as well as working in solutions to improve cities infra-structure management. Joel is also responsible for project management and deployment of these solutions, engaging senior executives across major European cities.
With a degree in Economics from ISEG-UTL, Technical Institute of Management and Economics, a post graduate degree in Economics from ISCTE-IUL and a specialization in Project and Product Management, Joel is passionate about entrepreneurship as well as sustainable business and technology solutions.

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Jorge Freire de Sousa

Jorge Freire de Sousa received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) in 1996. He teaches at FEUP, in the Industrial Engineering and Management Department. He has been a Member of the Board of STCP, the Public Transport Company of Porto (1998-2002 and 2006-2012). He is currently a research member of UGEI, a research unit of the Associate Laboratory INESC Technology and Science – INESC TEC, where his main topics of interest are Transportation, Decision Support Systems and Applied Operations Research.

 

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Jose Gonzalez

Jose Gonzalez is a Telecommunication Engineer by Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Master Science Degree accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) of United States.
His career is well balanced between the ICT and the business environments, being strongly competent in either of them. He has been involved in significant projects, collaborating with some of the most relevant technological companies from Spain and Europe, such as Ericsson and Telefonica Research & Innovation. Currently he performs diverse roles within the European Comission's FI-PPP programme, being responsible for infrastructures technical developments.
Between 2011 and 2012 he moved to Sydney, Australia. There, he kept enhancing his professional background and took part in a Smart City project led by the University of New South Wales (top 100 universities worldwide).

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José Maria Fernandes

José Maria Amaral Fernandes graduated (1996) and received his MSc (1998) in Computer Science from the Science Faculty of the University of Porto (FCUP). He received his Ph.D. in 2007 in Electrotechnical Engineering from University of Aveiro (UA) where he is assistant professor at the Dept. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics since 2008. He was faculty member of the Carnegie-Mellon|Portugal (CMU-P) program in Carnegie Mellon University Masters in Information Networking (MSIN/INI) and Master of Software Engineering during during Fall 2010 under the Faculty Exchange program.
His lecturing activity has been focused on mobile computing (iOS and Android frameworks) and software engineering (software architecture and IT integration). Currently he is leading the mobile Lab at DETI/UA and is the director of the advanced course on mobile computing offered by University of Aveiro (http://www.ua.pt/ensino/PageCourse.aspx?id=359).
Since 1997, he is part of IEETA, an R&D institute of the University of Aveiro (http://www.ieeta.pt/sias) where his research has been focused on 1) IT support for multimodal data fusion in movement related brain diseases (research and clinic support) and in 2) applying mobile devices based solutions in distributed monitoring scenarios (e.g. first responders scenarios). In this context he has been part of more than 10 projects namely CMU-Portugal VitalResponder project, MIT-Portugal MISC project and the Portuguese Brain imaging network (http://www.brainimaging.pt) part of the Portuguese grid initiatives on eScience.
Currently he is the local UA coordinator of FCT funded project VR2 for Intelligent management of critical events of stress, fatigue and smoke intoxication in forest firefighting (PTDC/EEI-ELC/2760/2012), a follow-up project on VitalResponder with the objective of providing a decision support system based on environment condition and fire progression on forest fires scenarios focused on the Fire fighters well-being.

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José Marques dos Santos

José Marques dos Santos was born the 31st of January of 1947 in the Guinea Bissau. He took a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and took the MSc and Ph.D at the University of Machester (UK) in Digital Electronics.
He his Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1989.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for 11 years, Vice-Rector at the University of Porto, between 2002 and 2006 and he was elected for the first term as Rector of the same University on July 2006. In 2010 was elected for the second term (four years) as Rector of University of Porto.

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Karl Henrik Johansson

Karl Henrik Johansson is Director of the KTH ACCESS Linnaeus Centre and Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is a Wallenberg Scholar and has held a six-year Senior Researcher Position with the Swedish Research Council. He is Director of the Stockholm Strategic Research Area ICT The Next Generation. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley (1998-2000) and California Institute of Technology (2006-2007). His research interests are in networked control systems, hybrid and embedded system, and applications in transportation, energy, and automation systems. He has been a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. He has been on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and IET Control Theory and Applications. He is currently on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and the European Journal of Control. He has been Guest Editor for special issues, including the one on “Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks” of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2011. He was the General Chair of the ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2010 in Stockholm and IPC Chair of many conferences. He has served on the Executive Committees of several European research projects in the area of networked embedded systems. In 2009, he received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems. In 2009, he was also awarded Wallenberg Scholar, as one of the first ten scholars from all sciences, by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. He was awarded an Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in 2005. He received the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC in 1996 and the Peccei Award from the International Institute of System Analysis, Austria, in 1993. He received Young Researcher Awards from Scania in 1996 and from Ericsson in 1998 and 1999. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Leonel Moura

Leonel Moura is an artist that works with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Since the year 2000 he has produced a series of robots able to create their own painting compositions, one of which is displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York permanent exhibition. He also created the Robotarium, a kind of zoo for solar powered robots.
He has several books published and contributes regularly with texts for various venues on the emergence of a new kind of machines not only intelligent but creative as well.

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Luis Brás

Luis Brás was born in 1985. He received the M. Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro in July 2009 and is currently a PhD student in at the same university.
In October 2009, he received a research scholarship from the Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) which he used to continue his research on location systems (LS). Currently he has been working in Instituto de Telecomunicações of Aveiro where he got involved with projects related with indoor and outdoor LS.
His main research interests are related with low power LS, including development of nodes firmware, hardware integration, communication protocols and location algorithms. He also have been designing low cost antennas mainly LS and vehicular communications. Luis Brás is an IEEE Student Member and an invited reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

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Manuel Heitor

Manuel Heitor is a Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, and manages “Centro de Estudos em Inovação, Tecnologia e Politicas de Desenvolvimento, IN+”. He was Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education, in the Government of Portugal, between March 2005 and June 2011. During the academic year 2011/12 he was Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the United States. Manuel Heitor is Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, at the IC2 Institute, and member of the Scientific Board of the "International Risk Governance Council," IRGC, since its foundation in 2004.

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Marcelino Pousa

Marcelino Pousa é licenciado em Física pela Universidade do Porto, ramo de ótica e eletrónica, fez mestrado em Organização e Sistemas de informação pela Universidade de Évora e uma pós graduação em economia da propriedade intelectual pelo ISEG. Desde 1985 que é colaborador da PT Inovação, assumindo atualmente as funções de diretor de Suporte à Gestão, Inovação e Conhecimento. É responsável pela interface empresa Universidades na PT Inovação, e nessas funções faz parte da Direção do Instituto de Telecomunicações, e membro da comissão de gestão do polo de Aveiro do IT.

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Paula Trigueiros

Paula Trigueiros integrates the team of I-City Project - ICT for Future Mobility, at FEUP; She is charged to design user interfaces to improve the quality of experience of end users of ICT in public transportation.
Paula Trigueiros is an architect since 1988. At first, created her own architecture studio. Since 1993 she was Design Professor in diverse universities, as IADE - Creative University (Lisbon),  Lusiada's University (at Porto and Famalicão) and in EUAC (Universitary Art's School of Coimbra). She attended the Masters in Product Design - the pro- IDUP (University of Porto) and specialized in Inclusive Design since the completion of his dissertation entitled "The city as seen by the blind - information, mobility and citizenship." She is the author and coordinator of several planning, architectural and design projects.
Recently P. Trigueiros worked on Interfaces and Technologies and accessibility to information and public transports, mainly in Oporto. In 2008 defended PhD thesis at UTAD on "Accessibility in Public Use Terminals". She published some articles and academic papers and has been invited as a speaker at many events, especially related to the theme of Design, Creativity, Accessibility and Inclusion. On her initiative, developed several independent projects, e.g. the design of a car named "Dolphin", pioneer in Portuguese participation at "Shell Eco - marathon", and "Music on the Road" - which resulted in the "PlayGround" and "Urban Carousel" - developed in 2012 under the "Guimarães Culture European Capital". In 2003 she founded the group named "PLIM - Free Projects, Ideas in Motion", philanthropic group dedicated to creative exploration of ideas.

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Paulo Pinho

Paulo Pinho is Full Professor of Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto (FEUP), founder and Director of CITTA – the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, Director of the Environmental Planning Division (FEUP) and National and International Consultant in the fields of Urban Planning and Environmental Assessment. Graduated in Civil Engineering in Oporto, got a postgraduate diploma in Urban and Regional Planning and a PhD in Environmental Planning from Strathclyde University, Glasgow. He is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters published (or translated) in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian and Serbian language, on Urban, Regional, Transport and Environmental Planning and Management, as well as of several papers published in international scientific journals such as Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning B, Urban Morphology, Evaluation, Planning Theory and Practice, Journal of Urbanism, Town Planning Review, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, Urban Studies, European Planning Studies, Planning Perspectives, Cities, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Journal of Planning Literature and Urban Design International. His recent research focuses on planning evaluation, urban and metropolitan morphologies and dynamics, resilience, urban metabolism and planning policies for a low carbon built environment.

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Rui Aguiar

Rui Luís Aguiar, born 1967, is Associate Professor with “Agregação” at the Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Department at the University of Aveiro. He also held an Adjunct Professor position at Carnegie Mellon University, associated to the Institute of Networking Information, from 2007 to 2011. He is the leader of the ATNOG research group since its creation.
He holds more than 300 papers in international and national journals and conferences on circuits and communication systems. He has contributions to several standardization fora, including IEEE and IETF.
Has participated in multiple European Union R&D projects, in networking and distributed computing. He was Chief Architect of the Daidalos project, a five-year, 74M€ budget project, and was the coordinator of the networking activities of EU projects C-Mobile (Advanced MBMS for the Future Mobile World), WIP (An All-wireless Mobile Network Architecture), Swift (Secure Widespread Identities for Federated Telecommunications) and C-CAST (Context Casting), amongst others. Recently he was the chief architect of project Medieval (MultimEDia transport for mobIlE Video AppLications).
He has been involved in several strategic boards on future communications research, and in the evaluation of careers and programmes on networking and research in several countries. He was the General Chair of ICT2006 (International Conference on Telecommunications), MON-AMI’2011, and Technical Co-Chair of the IEEE ISCC2007 (International Symposium on Computer Communications), and of ICSN 2005 (International Conference on Networking and Services). He has been invited as a speaker in several fora, both industry and academia-oriented, including talks to ARIBE, in Japan. He is currently Associate Editor of ETT, Chair of ISCC2014 and sits on the Steering Board of several Initiatives and Conferences.

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Satya Nitta

Dr. Satya V. Nitta is currently the manager of the Emerging Technologies research group at IBM’s T J Watson Research Center where he is focusing on applications of cognitive computing. Previously, he spent a year as Technical Advisor to the office of the Vice President of Science and Technology for IBM Research Worldwide where he helped set the strategy for IBM’s technology and systems roadmaps. As manager and technical leader of the Advanced Interconnect Technology area at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY he led large teams of scientists and engineers which invented and defined several generations of IBM’s chip technologies ranging from the 65nm node to the 7nm node. He has also participated as an author and lead scientist on IBM’s Global Technology Outlook, which forecasts the major emerging trends in the computing industry.
Dr. Nitta received a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Chemical Engineering in 1998 and has been at IBM since 1999 during which time he has served as a technologist and a technical leader of teams which developed several new aspects of on-chip interconnect technology. He was named as the IEEE Spectrum “Innovator of the Year” in 2008 and also won an IEEE Spectrum Ace Award for “Technology of the Year” in 2008.
Dr. Nitta serves as one of IBM’s technical liaisons to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he is a member of the Industrial Advisory boards for the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center as well as the Center for Future Energy Systems. He has authored or co-authored over thirty publications, one book chapter, and currently holds over 70 US patents with over 40 patent applications pending at the USPTO. His current interests cognitive computing, digitization of education, silicon technology, and alternative energy technologies.

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Susana Sargento

Susana Sargento received her Ph.D. in 2003 in Electrical Engineering. She joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto in September 2002, and is in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications since February 2004, where she currently leads the Network Architectures and Protocols group (http://nap.av.it.pt). She was also a Guest Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in 2008/2009, in the scope of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. She has been involved in several national and European projects, taking leaderships of several activities in the projects, such as the QoS and ad-hoc networks integration activity in the FP6 IST-Daidalos Project. She has been recently involved in several FP7 projects (4WARD, Euro-NF, C-Cast, WIP, Daidalos, C-Mobile), national projects, and Carnegie Mellon Portugal research projects (DRIVE-IN with the Carnegie Melon University). She has been TPC-Chair and organizing several conferences, such as MONAMI'11, NGI'09, IEEE ISCC'07, NTMS'12 and IEEE FEDNET (with IEEE NOMS'12). Her main research interests are in the areas of Next Generation and Future Networks, more specifically QoS, mobility, self- and cognitive networks.

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Tânia Calçada

Tânia Calçada received a Licenciatura (1999) and the PhD (2013) degree a in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Porto University. Her PhD topic was channel assignment strategies for wireless mesh networks. Between 1999 and 2003 she was working for Novis, a telecom operator, designing corporate network solutions. In the next 10 years she did research at INESC TEC in the area of wireless networks involved in projects related with wireless mesh networks and vehicular networks. Currently Dr. Tânia Calçada is a post-doctorate research assistant at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto in the Future Cities FP7 project.