Publications: 'Ensemble SARSA and LSTM for User-centric Handover Decisions in 5G Vehicular Networks' (IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, In Press, 2024); 'MDP-based connectivity and availability models for Internet of Vehicles' (Elsevier Internet of Things, 2023). Book: 'Intelligent Transport System in Smart Cities: Aspects and Challenges of Vehicular Networks and Cloud' (Springer, 2018).
Research Experience
Primary research interests involve algorithms and protocols for supporting and enabling large-scale distributed systems, concerning urban computing, intelligent transportation, and PDES. Projects make use of optimization strategies, [meta-]heuristics, and learning algorithms in a distributed setup.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Ottawa, Canada; M.Sc. in Computer Science from Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil; B.Sc. in Computer Science from Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil.
Background
Research interests include Vehicular Networks, Mobility Management, Handover Management, Traffic Steering, Connectivity stability/intermittency, Intelligence on the Edge, Distributed/Decentralized/Federated learning, IoT/IoV, Dissemination and applications, Performance, Mobile Cloud Computing/Vehicular Clouds, HPC and allocation, Offloading heuristics, Classification and ML, Applications (ITS), Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Miscellany
Prospective students interested in pursuing an MSc or conducting an undergraduate research project, especially those sharing similar research interests, are encouraged to get in touch.