Awards, distictions and accomplishments

• In 2023, I received (as surpervisor) the Best Paper Presented by a Young Reseacher in the IEEE MetroAutomotive 2023, held in Modena, Italy


• In 2022, I became an Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering


• In 2021, I received the Best Paper Award in the IET Smart Cities journal


• From 2019 until 2022, I was a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Latin America Transactions


• In 2019, I became an IEEE Senior Member


• In 2019, I became an Associate Professor at the State University of Feira de Santana


• In 2019, I received a Brazilian CNPq postdoc grant for 1 year research at the University of Porto, Portugal


• In 2019, I graduated as a black belt in Aikido


• From 2018, I am a member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI Smart Cities journal


• From 2018, I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Hindawi Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing


• In 2018, I received a Brazilian CNPq Research grant for a project on the subject of Environmental Monitoring in Cities using Bikes


• In 2017, I received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Summer School on Smart Cities, held in Natal, Brazil


• In 2015, I received an European Erasmus Mundus research grant to visit the University of Porto, Portugal, for 1 month


• In 2015, I funded the Advanced Applications and Networking Lab - LARA


• In 2014, I received a Brazilian FAPESB research grant for International Cooperation with the University of Porto (Portugal) on the subject of Coverage by Wireless Visual Sensor Networks


• In 2014, I received a Brazilian CNPq research grant for a project on the subject of Simulations on Wireless Visual Sensor Networks


• In 2013, I received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Industrial Informatics conference (IEEE INDIN 2013), held in Bochum, Germany