Panel I

Title: Cloud Computing Research in Latin America: Musts and Wants?

Abstract: This panel will be composed of academy and industry representatives that will discuss issues related to the consolidation of a Latin American agenda for research, development, and innovation in the area of Cloud Computing. Among such issues, the panelists will debate the adequacy of computing curricula for undergraduate and graduate degree programs in this area, the potential of Cloud Computing as a one-size-fits-all approach to tackle research problems in science and engineering, and the adoption of current software engineering practice to develop cloud-based software-intensive systems.

Panelists:

Dorgival Guedes

Dorgival Guedes is an Associate Professor of the Computer Science Department at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from the University of Arizona, Tucson, a M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (1992 and 1989, respectively). He was a Visiting Scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, during 2011. Currently, Dorgival is the Coordinator of the Distributed Systems Research Group of InWeb (National Institute of Science and Technology for the Web). His research interests include Computer Networks, Distributed Systems and Operating Systems, specially where they relate to the scalability of globally distributed applications. Having that in mind, his two main research topics nowadays are Cloud Computing and Software Defined Networks.

Jairo Panetta

Jairo Panetta received his PhD in Computer Sciences from Purdue University in 1985. He has been consulting for CPTEC and for Petrobras during the last 20 years. At both places he heads HPC groups that are responsible for in-house developed production code.

Thais Vasconcelos Batista

Thais Batista holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. She is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). She has also served as Program Committee Member for several national and international conferences and workshops on software architecture, network and distributed systems, and software engineering related topics. Her current research interests involve: middleware, cloud computing, software architecture, model-based development, and software product lines.

DEP - Distinguished Experts Panel

Title: Cloud Computing Worldwide and Latin American opportunities

Abstract: This panel will discuss how the current Cloud Computing worldwide scenario, as well as the directions that major academic and industrial players are heading in, can bring opportunities for a broader Latin American involvement in the area. The discussion will be steered by the outcomes of the first panel, and will be presented from 3 different angles: technical fundamentals, legal framework, and the market.

Panelists:

Brian Cooper

Brian F. Cooper is a software engineer on the search team at Google. Previously, he was a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research. His interests include web search, distributed information systems and databases. Before that, he was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, where he worked on self-managing peer-to-peer overlays and distributed in-network event processing. His PhD dissertation examined adaptive overlays for replicating data, and for searching for the replicated data once it had been scattered throughout a network. Brian received his PhD in 2003 from Stanford University, where he worked in the database group, the digital library project, and the peer-to-peer group. His dissertation advisor was Hector Garcia-Molina. Brian also received his MS from Stanford in 2000, and his BS in computer science and BA in Chemistry from the University of Colorado.

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho

José Luiz Ribeiro Filho received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of London, the M.Sc. degree from PESC/COPPE, and his Electrical Engineer from UFRJ. He started his carrier back to 80’s, participating and leading several research projects in the areas of computer architecture and computer networks at the NCE/UFRJ. From 1996 to 2000 he led the National Research and Education Network (RNP), period when he, jointly with MEC and MCT, acted to put RNP in charge of the national academic network infrastructure. Thereafter he was CTO of the Telemar data-center company Tnext, to then briefly work in the services department of HP Brazil. Currently, José Luiz is head of RNP’s services and solutions department, where he is responsible for coordinating national projects, such as REDECOMEP (Metropolitan Community Networks for Education and Research) and RUTH (Telemedicine University Network). He is also one of the academic representatives in the CGI.br, where he also acted as counselor from 1998 to 2000. José Luiz already represented both Brazil and RNP in various forums and international agencies such as Internet Society (ISOC), Internet 2, ICANN, LACNIC, among others.

Nelson Luis Saldanha Fonseca (mediator)

Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca received his Electrical Engineer (1984) and MSc in Computer Science (1987) degrees from The Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the MSc (1993) and Ph.D (1994) degrees in Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California. He receive the title of “Livre Docente” in Computer Networks from the University of Campinas in 1999. He is a Full Professor at Institute of Computing of The University of Campinas, Campinas - Brazil. He has been affiliated to the Institute of Computing since 1995. Currently, He is Head of the Computer Systems Department. He was Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He lectured at Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Trento, Italy (2004 and 2007) and at the University of Pisa (2007). He held Lecturer positions at Pontificial Catholic University (1985 - 1987) and worked in the Computer Communications group at IBM Rio Scientific Center (1989). He received the Medal of the Chancelor of the University of Pisa (2007). He is the recipient of the 2003 State University of Campinas Zeferino Vaz award for academic productivity in Computer Science, the Elsevier Computer Network Journal Editor of Year 2001 award, the 1994 University of Southern California International Book award and the Brazilian Computer Society First Thesis and Dissertations award. He is listed in Marqui's Who is Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering. His graduate students have received eight awards in Latin America Thesis contests.