Activities & awards

Current activities

• CEO of the Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP) — since 2025
• Advisory board member (Computer Science) of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
• Advisory board member (Computer Science and Information) of FAPERGS (Fundação de Ampara à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul)
• Member of IEEE ComSoc GITC (GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content Standing Committee) — 2021–2024
• Executive Chair of the IEEE Global Communications Conference — GLOBECOM 2022
• Advisory board member of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) — 2019–2023
• Associated Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Network Management — IJNM (Wiley)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Networks and Systems Management — JNSM (Springer) and IEEE Transactions on Network and Systems Management — TNSM (IEEE)
• Member of the NOMS/IM Steering Committee — NISC

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Awards & honors

• 2025
  Newton Faller Award for distinguished services to the scientific computing community Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
• 2023
  Applied Networking Research Prize Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• 2022
  Salah Aidarous Award for contributions to network and service management IEEE Communications Society
• 2020
  Distinguished Service Award at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
• 2018
  Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Workshop on Self-Driving Networks (SelfDN 2018) ACM
• 2015
  Best Tool Award for "SDN Interactive Manager" at IFIP/IEEE IM 2015, with Pedro Isolani, Juliano Wickboldt, Cristiano Both, and Juergen Rochol IEEE Communications Society and IFIP
• 2013
  IEEE Communications Society Latin America Region Distinguished Service Award IEEE Communications Society
• 2011
  Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Network Management (advisor of Clarissa Cassales Marquezan) IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM)
• 2010
  Best Undergraduate Thesis Award (advisor of Márcio Barbosa de Carvalho) for "Adaptation of Nagios for Virtual Server Monitoring" Terra Networks
  Best Paper Award at SBSeg 2010 for "Signature-based Architecture for Botnet Mitigation" Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
• 2009
  Invited Researcher, Dagstuhl Seminar 09052: Management of the Future Internet Schloss Dagstuhl — Leibniz Center for Informatics
  Invited Researcher, Dagstuhl Seminar 09211: Visualization and Monitoring of Network Traffic Schloss Dagstuhl — Leibniz Center for Informatics
• 2008
  Best Paper Award for "Using Visualization Techniques for SNMP Traffic Analysis" at the International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2008) IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society
• 2007
  HP Technology for Teaching Higher Education Grant Initiative Award Hewlett-Packard Company
• 2005
  Honored professor by the 2005/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UFRGS
  Top-6 Papers Award at SBRC 2005 Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and LARC
• 2004
  Honored professor by the 2004/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UFRGS
• 2003
  Honored professor by the 2003/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC
  Honored professor by the 2003/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UFRGS
• 2002
  Class Patron (Paraninfo) of the 2001/2 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC
  2nd place, Ph.D. category, in the Theses and Dissertations Contest (CTD) Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
  Honored professor by the 2002/2 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC
• 2001
  Honored professor by the 2001/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UPF
  Class Patron (Paraninfo) of the 2001/1 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC
• 2000
  Honored professor by the 2000/2 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UFRGS
  Honored professor by the 2000/2 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC
• 1999
  Honored professor by the 1999/2 graduating class Computer Science undergraduate program — UNISC