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Research Interests Publications MSc Thesis Projects Teaching Useful Stuff (DEEC)	Short Bio I graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1998 and received a PhD in Engineering (Telecommunication Networks) from the Technical University of Berlin in June 2008. My PhD research focused on scheduling heterogeneous data flows (VoIP, MPEG-4, HTTP and file transfer) to multiple users sharing a wireless channel. I also worked in wireless channel modelling and prediction of wireless link behaviour. Since September 2009 I am an Assistant Professor with FEUP, and since April 2010 a research fellow of Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). I am currently working on mobile sensing, vehicular networks, heterogeneous networks and Internet of Things. I also recently started activities in data mining geographically indexed data. I am fascinated with wireless communications and pervasive computing and I will continue to do applied research in these areas. I spent the Summer Semester 2011 as visiting faculty at the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, hosted by Peter Steenkiste. From May 2008 to December 2009 I worked as a senior researcher in building up Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, a joint project beween the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the University of Porto, engaging in project acquisition and management in the area of Ambient Assisted Living, targeting applied research projects in the areas of wireless sensor networks, context-awareness and service-oriented architectures applied to ambient assisted living. From 1998 to 2001, I worked as a cell planner and optimisation engineer for portuguese and german cellular operators. I am currently reviewer to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier's Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and Journal of Network and Computer Architectures.
Contacts Email: ana . aguiar at fe . up . pt LinkedIn: Ana Aguiar

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Short Bio

I graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1998 and received a PhD in Engineering (Telecommunication Networks) from the Technical University of Berlin in June 2008. My PhD research focused on scheduling heterogeneous data flows (VoIP, MPEG-4, HTTP and file transfer) to multiple users sharing a wireless channel. I also worked in wireless channel modelling and prediction of wireless link behaviour.

Since September 2009 I am an Assistant Professor with FEUP, and since April 2010 a research fellow of Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). I am currently working on mobile sensing, vehicular networks, heterogeneous networks and Internet of Things. I also recently started activities in data mining geographically indexed data. I am fascinated with wireless communications and pervasive computing and I will continue to do applied research in these areas.

I spent the Summer Semester 2011 as visiting faculty at the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, hosted by Peter Steenkiste.

From May 2008 to December 2009 I worked as a senior researcher in building up Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, a joint project beween the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and the University of Porto, engaging in project acquisition and management in the area of Ambient Assisted Living, targeting applied research projects in the areas of wireless sensor networks, context-awareness and service-oriented architectures applied to ambient assisted living. From 1998 to 2001, I worked as a cell planner and optimisation engineer for portuguese and german cellular operators.

I am currently reviewer to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier's Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and Journal of Network and Computer Architectures.

Contacts

Email: ana . aguiar at fe . up . pt

LinkedIn: Ana Aguiar