HONORS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

  AWARDS

  05/11               IARIA/ICNS   

IARIA/7^th ICNS Venice, Italy, May, 2011, best papers selection, invitation for extended journal submission

03/10               IEEE/TTTC    

IEEE/TTTC E.J. McCluskey, Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2010, second place in the Latin America finals

11/07               IEEE  

Student Travel Grant to attend and present a paper at GLOBECOM 2007
Field: Mobile Computing

08/01               Brazilian Computer Society  

Third place at the XIV Brazilian Computer Society Contest on Masters Thesis
Field: Mobile Computing

  08/01               Brazilian Computer Society  

Co-advisor of the winner of the XX Brazilian Computer Society
Contest on Scientific Initiation Works.
Field: Mobile Computing and Formal Verification

  09/00               UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)  
XXVI Latin American Conference on Informatics  

Third place at the VII CLEI-UNESCO Contest of Masters Thesis
Field: Mobile Computing

  DISTINCTIONS

 02/09                 ACM-Sigmobile / HotMobile 2009   

Participation at Hotmobile 2009 doctoral consortium

01/05                 National University of Trujillo, Peru  

Invited professor at Graduate School at National University of Trujillo, Peru
Professor of Mobile Computing Class

  FELLOWSHIPS

  02/07 - 02/10      EURECOM Fellowship  
Support to PhD degree in Telecommunications
Field: Public Safety Networks and Topology Control  

03/05 - 03/09      FAPEMIG (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais) Fellowship  
Support to PhD degree in Computer Science
Field: Mobile Computing and Sensor networks  

  08/02                 University of Maryland Fellowship   
Support to PhD degree in Computer Science

  03/98 - 03/00      CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) Fellowship  
Support to graduate studies (M.S.)
Field: Mobile Computing