Ronaldo Alves Ferreira

Ronaldo A. Ferreira is a Full Professor of Computer Science in the College of Computing (Faculdade de Computação) at UFMS. He received his B.Sc. from UFMS in 1992, his M.S. from the University of Campinas in 1998, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006, all in Computer Science. Ronaldo was a Visiting Research Scholar and a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University from 2014 to 2016. He served as the chair of the Special Interest Group on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) from 2011 to 2013. Ronaldo was a member of the board of administration of the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP) from 2011 to 2013. He was a member of the board of directors of the Brazilian National Laboratory of Computer Networks (LARC) from 2014 to 2023. He is currently the Director of Cooperation with Scientific Societies of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). His work has been published at the most selective conferences, such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM CCS, Usenix ATC, and IEEE Infocom, and has received prestigious awards, such as the 2023 IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CCS 2022, Best Paper Runner-Up at IFIP Networking 2020, and Best Paper at the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Self-Driving Networks 2018. His research interests are in computer networks and distributed systems. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)