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. 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. She was a co-founder of the COPELABS research unit, and the COPELABS scientific director (2013-2017), where she was a Senior Researcher (2010-2019). She has co-founded the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019), a startup focused on personal communication platforms.
Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; in-network computing; network mining. Rute holds over 60 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Europe Councilor (2021-2025); an ACM Senior member, an IEEE Senior Member. She was an IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards co-chair (2020-2021).
Before fortiss, she was an Associate Professor (COPELABS/ULHT, wireless/user-centric networking; sensing; IoT); she co-lead as senior researcher the "Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, INESC-TEC (07-10), focus on wireless/cellular network architectures and user-centric networking; she was (04-07) 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) 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, MNLab, coordinated by Roch Guerin.
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 Ms Rute C. Sofia participates
Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 679/680
Workshop
Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate (Speaker)
Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission (Speaker)
Federico M. Facca, Martel Innovate (Speaker)
Tanya Suarez, BlueSpecs/AIOTI (Speaker)
Florin-Calin Paun, RAFAUT Group (Speaker)
Ms Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH (Speaker)
John Soldatos, INTRASOFT International (Speaker)
Paul Delaney, Cellnex Ireland (Speaker)
Daragh OBrien (Speaker)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Mezzanine 1
Panel
Mr Sergio Gusmeroli, Politecnico di Milano (Moderator)
Mr Alessandro Liani, Video Systems (Keynote speaker)
Max Lemke, European Commission (Speaker)
Ms Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH (Speaker)
Natalie Samovich, ENERCOUTIM (Speaker)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Davin Suite
Panel
Charles Sturman, AIOTI (Moderator)
Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center FutureLabs (Speaker)
Lingbo Kong, Huawei Edge Computing over TSN (Speaker)
Tom de Block, AIOTI WG on Distributed Ledger Technologies (Speaker)
Ms Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH (Moderator)
Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH (Speaker)
Natalie Samovich, ENERCOUTIM (Speaker)
Francois Fischer, FSCOM (Speaker)
Mr Ricardo Vitorino, Ubiwhere (Speaker)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 681/682
Workshop
Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (Moderator)
Konstantinos Loupos, INLECOM (Moderator)
Sérgio Figueiredo, INSTITUTO PEDRO NUNES (Moderator)
Christos Xenakis, University of Pireus (Speaker)
Ms Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH (Speaker)
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, UOWM (Speaker)
George Bravos, SENTINEL (Speaker)
Dimitrios Kavallieros, CERTH-ITI (Speaker)
Mert Nakip, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics Polish Academy of Sciences (Speaker)
Sessions in which Ms Rute C. Sofia attends
Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Foyer & Suite
Alison Gilliland, Dublin City Council (Speaker)