
Rute C. Sofia (PhD 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems in Munich, Germany. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed on industrial and on academic context, and she has co-founded COPELABS (2012-2019, Lisbon, Portugal), research unit which she also steered between 2013-2017. and where she was a Senior Researcher until 2019. She has co-founded Senception Lda (2013), a startup focused on personal communication platforms. Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; edge computing; in-network computation; network mining. Rute holds over 60 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Senior member and an ACM Europe Councilor, and an IEEE Senior Member. She is also an N2Women Awards Co-chair.
Before COPELABS/ULHT, she was a senior
researcher at INESC TEC (07-10, Porto, Portugal), where she steered the
"Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, team dedicated
to wireless/cellular networking architectures and to user-centric networking
paradigms. She was (04-07, Munich, Germany) a senior research scientist in
Siemens AG and Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH, focusing on aspects such as:
fixed-mobile convergence; carrier-grade Ethernet; QoS; IPv6 interoperability.
Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995);
M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004, “Summa cum Laude”) in Informatics by Universidade
de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at
Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania.
Sessions in which Rute C. Sofia participates
- EU-IoT: The NGIoT Initiative Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 679/680
- 1:45 PM - 4:30 PM | 2 hours 45 minutes
- Workshop
- IIoT vehicle of vitamins and white blood cells for the healthy growth of the new chip industry market Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Mezzanine 1
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- AIOTI Testbeds – Presentation of controlled experimentation facilities Croke Park Conference Centre - Davin Suite
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Identity, trust and privacy in an intelligent, smart IoT World. Challenges and outcomes - Session 3: Trustworthiness and Tailored applications Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 681/682
- 1:45 PM - 4:00 PM | 2 hours 15 minutes
- Workshop
Sessions in which Rute C. Sofia attends
- Welcoming Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliand Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Foyer & Suite
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour