Institution: UFRGS
Email: cpereira@eletro.ufrgs.br
Home Page: http://www.ece.ufrgs.br/~cpereira/
Carlos Eduardo Pereira graduated in electrical engineering (1987) and received a masters degree in computer science (1990) , both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). He also holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart in Germany (1995) . Carlos is currently an associate professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UFRGS and member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and IFAC Council (2011-2014). He is also president of the Superior Council of the Brazilian Automation Society (SBA). Carlos serves as associate editor of the scientific journal Control Engineering Practice (Elsevier) and Journal of Control and Automation (SBA). His topics of interest include: object oriented, real-time systems, industrial automation, industrial buses, and software engineering.