Rui A. Costa

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, in the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (from 2007 to 2012)
- Graduated with summa cum laude - highest honor
- Advisor: Prof. João Barros
- Thesis: "Network Coding for Delay Constrained Wireless Systems with Feedback"
Masters in Informatics (Branch of Systems and Networks), in the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (from 2006 to 2007)
- Advisor: Prof. João Barros
- Thesis: "Capacity Bounds for Small-World and Dual Radio Networks"
Licenciatura in Applied Mathematics, in the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (from 2001 to 2006)
- Best in 2005/06 class

Research Assistant at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (since 2007)
- Supervisor: Prof. João Barros
- Designed coding solutions to delay constrained communication systems
- Studied the fundamental limits of communication with limited blocklength
- Research projects: WITS, NET-PEEC, DRIVE-IN, MISC, N-Crave
Visiting Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Summer of 2009)
- Host: Prof. Muriel Médard
- Studied the delay performance of network coding solutions
Internship at DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich (Fall of 2007)
- Supervisor: Dr. Joerg Widmer
- Designed protocols for information dissemination in sensor networks
Research Assistant at the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (Jun. 2005 - Dec. 2006)
- Supervisor: Prof. João Barros
- Studied the communication limits of complex networks
- Studied the fundamental limits of communication with limited blocklength
- Research projects: Daidalos, Dynamo
Research Assistant at the Mathematical Center of the University of Porto (Nov. 2004 - Apr. 2005)
- Supervisors: Prof. Filomena Almeida and Prof. Paulo Vasconcelos
- Studied the growth factor in gaussian elimination with partial pivoting

Grand Prize Winner of the Concurso Nacional de Inovação BES 2012, as a Co-Founder of Streambolico.

Nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'10) in 2010

Doctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2006
Scholarship from the Fundação Gulbenkian to attend the Mathematics Summer School, from the program New Talents in Mathematics, in 2005

Teaching Assistant at the Polytechnic of Porto, School of Engineering (ISEP) (2010/2011)
Teaching Assistant at the Superior Institute of Health Sciences - North (2006/2007)
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (2005/2006)