Big Data Summit 2

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PROF. DR. RENATO J. FIGUEIREDO (PROFESSOR at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, USA)

Renato J. Figueiredo is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida. Dr. Figueiredo received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade de Campinas in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2001.

From 2001 until 2002 he was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and from 2012 to 2013 he was a visiting researcher at Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands.

His research interests are in the areas of virtualization, distributed systems, overlay and software-defined networks, cloud and edge computing, and their applications in support of computational science in domains including lake ecology, bio-diversity, and smart and connected communities. Dr. Figueiredo’s research team leads the IPOP (IP-over-P2P) open-source overlay virtual network project.