Archives April 2025

On April 24–25, 2025, the CPE SMARTNESS center held its second annual workshop at the Casa do Professor Visitante (FUNCAMP), located at UNICAMP in Campinas, São Paulo. The event gathered researchers, students, and representatives from academia and industry for two days of presentations, discussions, and technical demonstrations focused on cutting-edge topics in networks, computing, and emerging technologies.

Representing LERIS/UFSCar, Prof. Fábio Luciano Verdi joined the full agenda of activities and played a key role as moderator of one of the roundtables on the second day of the event. His participation contributed to strengthening LERIS’s presence in national collaborative efforts around networking, systems, and innovation.

Day 1 – Internal Planning and Group Work

The first day of the workshop was reserved for internal discussions among SMARTNESS members, including teams from UNICAMP, UFSCar, the Federal University of Uberlândia, and Ericsson Research Brazil. The day began with the presentation of the annual scientific report and continued with planning sessions and group discussions on research strategies, project management, outreach, and science communication.

Day 2 – Open Sessions, Keynotes, and Demos

On the second day, the event welcomed a broader audience and featured a diverse program, including:

• A keynote lecture by Prof. Israat Haque (Dalhousie University, Canada), on the development of AI-driven 5G technologies.
• A presentation by Prof. Luciano Mendes (INATEL) on the xGMobile project and the Brazil 6G initiative.
• Three roundtables discussing:
  • Experiences from large research centers
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Management of complex research initiatives

Prof. Fábio Verdi served as moderator for one of these roundtables, facilitating a rich dialogue among participants and reinforcing the importance of coordinated efforts between academia and industry in advancing technological frontiers.

Live Demonstrations

Throughout the event, SMARTNESS teams showcased live tech demos during breaks, including:

• An extended reality (XR) demo app
• A virtual reality showroom
• A drone simulator

A Platform for Co-creation and Strategic Planning

More than just a showcase of progress, the workshop was a strategic platform for co-creation and future planning. The collaborative environment fostered dialogue across disciplines, guided the center’s next steps, and strengthened its mission to connect research, innovation, and societal impact.

LERIS is proud to take part in this collective effort and congratulates all members and partners involved in the event’s success.

Guilherme Matos defended his PhD’s qualification entitled “Functional Decomposition of Monolithic Applications to Heterogeneous Hardwares”. We would like to thank the jury members: Hermes Senger, Marcos Vieira and Marcelo Luizelli.

From April 7 to 11, 2025, Professor Fábio Luciano Verdi, head of the LERIS laboratory at UFSCar, participated in a technical mission to Ericsson’s global headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of the ongoing collaboration within the CPE SMARTNESS project. The delegation also included Professors Christian Esteve Rothenberg and Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (UNICAMP), and researcher Maria Valéria Marquezini (Ericsson Research Brazil).

Throughout the week, the group engaged in a comprehensive agenda of technical meetings and strategic discussions with Ericsson Research teams. Topics explored during these sessions included Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Software, aligning directly with the core research areas of the SMARTNESS project and the LERIS lab.

As part of the visit, the delegation also had the opportunity to tour the Ericsson Imagine Studio, an innovation space that showcases cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of communication and information systems.

The visit served as an important milestone for strengthening the partnership between academia and industry. It fostered knowledge exchange, alignment of ongoing research, and dialogue about future cooperation opportunities, reinforcing LERIS’s role in high-level international research collaborations.

We thank Ericsson for the warm welcome and for supporting initiatives that drive innovation through joint academic-industry efforts.