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
- EU-IoT: The NGIoT Initiative Croke Park Conference Centre - Suite 679/680
- 1:45 PM - 4:30 PM | 2 hours 45 minutes
- The evolution of the IoT into the Next-generation IoT will be marked by a series of technological advances which inc...
- 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
- Considering European industrial market like a human body, IIoT could represent the ...
- Panel
- AIOTI Testbeds – Presentation of controlled experimentation facilities Croke Park Conference Centre - Davin Suite
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- This session is organized by the AIOTI Interest Group Testbeds, with the aim to raise awareness and to de...
- 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
- The Internet and the recent connect...
- Workshop
Sessions in which Ms 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