Vitor Barbosa Souza, Ph.D., is a Professor at Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) in Brazil. He has Bachelor Degree (2006) and Master Degree (2010) in Computer Science at UFV and PhD (Cum Laude) in Computer Architecture at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Spain (2018) with focus in advanced network architectures. His doctoral thesis "Mechanisms for service-oriented resource allocation in IoT" has been the most downloaded among those published in the years 2017-2018 and published at the institutional UPC repository. He has been member of European projects such as H2020 mF2C and H2020 GUAU. In addition, he is an active reviewer of the International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) and Internet of Things Journal. Recent work is related to the provisioning of Control-as-a-Service in highly dynamic and heterogeneous fog environments and employment of machine learning techniques for enhanced QoS in collaborative service-oriented architectures.
His current research interest includes Fog computing, Cloud computing, IoT, QoS, 5G and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)