Ronaldo Alves Ferreira

Ronaldo A. Ferreira is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computing (Faculdade de Computação) at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil. He received his B.Sc. from UFMS in 1992, his M.S. from the University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 1998, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006, all in Computer Science. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University, USA.He served as Chair of the Special Interest Group on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) from 2011 to 2013 and, during the same period, as a member of the Board of Administration of the Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (RNP). From 2014 to 2023, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian National Laboratory of Computer Networks (LARC). He currently serves as Director of Cooperation with Scientific Societies of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), a Board Councilor of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and a Member-at-Large of the ACM LATAM Technology Policy Committee.Professor Ferreira has served on the Technical Program Committees of leading networking conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, ACM IMC, and IEEE ICNP. His research has been published in premier venues such as ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM CCS, USENIX ATC, and IEEE INFOCOM, and has received several prestigious awards, including the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2023), 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).He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Networking. His research interests include computer networks, Internet routing, network security, and distributed systems. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)