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.
Washington Silva defended his PhD’s qualification entitled “Delivering Augmented Reality to the Edge: An Approach Toward Model Partitioning Across Heterogeneous Devices”. We would like to thank the jury members: Cesar Comin, Kleber Vieira Cardoso and Jó Ueyama.
From December 9th to 12th, researchers from LERIS took part in the ACM CoNEXT 2024, a premier international conference on emerging networking technologies, held this year at UCLA, in Los Angeles. Representing the laboratory, PhD students Guilherme Matos and Washington Silva participated actively in the event, presenting their research during both the Student Workshop and the Main Track poster session.
Guilherme Matos presented his work entitled “DECOMPOSER: Functional Decomposition of Monolithic Applications to Heterogeneous Resources in Disaggregated Environments”, which explores novel strategies for offloading application components to diverse hardware in disaggregated datacenter environments.
Washington Sousa showcased the paper “Delivering Augmented Reality to the Edge: An Approach Toward Object Recognition through the In-Network Computing Paradigm”, addressing how edge computing and programmable networks can support AR applications with low latency and energy efficiency.
Both papers were selected for oral presentation at the Student Workshop and later featured in the poster session during the main conference, offering visibility and fostering discussions with leading researchers in the field.
The participation in CoNEXT 2024 reinforces LERIS’s commitment to high-impact research and its growing presence in top-tier international venues. The conference provided a valuable opportunity for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and exposure to cutting-edge advancements in networking and distributed systems.
We congratulate our researchers for their outstanding contributions and for representing LERIS on the global stage.
On December 6th, members of the LERIS laboratory had the opportunity to visit the Ericsson Research Center in Santa Clara, California, as part of the activities of the Smartness2030 project. Representing LERIS, PhD candidates Guilherme Matos and Washington Sousa joined two other researchers involved in the initiative for a productive day of technical discussions and research exchange.
The visit aimed to present and align both published and ongoing work within Smartness2030 with Ericsson’s current research directions. Throughout the day, participants engaged in high-level conversations on emerging technologies and innovative strategies for the future of communication and distributed systems.
The meeting reinforced the relevance of academic-industry collaboration in driving technological advancements and highlighted the potential of Smartness2030 to contribute to the evolution of next-generation communication infrastructures.
LERIS is proud to be part of this international effort and grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Ericsson’s research team. Initiatives like this not only strengthen our research but also open new pathways for impactful and globally connected innovation.
Vlademir Brusse defended his Master’s qualification entitled “Evaluating the Impact of Loss Functions in Deep Learning for Prediction of CQI in 5G Networks”. We would like to thank the jury members: Hermes Senger, Bruno Kimura and Fabio Luciano Verdi.
Mina Kaviani defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Evaluating the Impact of Loss Functions in Deep Learning for Prediction of CQI in 5G Networks”. We would like to thank the jury members: Hermes Senger, Bruno Kimura and Fabio Luciano Verdi.
Thiago Henrique defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Detecting Heavy Hitters globally in multi-pipes programmable devices”. We would like to thank the jury members: Alberto Egon Schaeffer Filho, Paulo Ditarso Maciel Júnior and Fabio Luciano Verdi (UFSCar).
We are excited to share that LERIS participated in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft’24), held from June 24 to 28, 2024, in St. Louis, MO, USA.
Thiago Caproni represented LERIS at the event, presenting our innovative research and advanced solutions in the field of network softwarization. His participation highlighted the high caliber of work being done by our team and brought international recognition to our efforts.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to Thiago for his dedication and excellent representation of LERIS at NetSoft’24. We also thank all the members of LERIS and the authors of the presented works for their contributions, which underscore our commitment to excellence and innovation in research.
Below, more information about the works presented by the LERIS team:
Thiago C. Tavares, Leandro C. de Almeida, Washington R. D. Silva, Christian R. E. Rothenberg, Ariel G. Castro and Fábio L. Verdi. Generation of Synthetic Datasets in the Context of Computer Networks using Generative Adversarial Networks. Tutorial IEEE NetSoft 2024.
Marcelo C. Luizelli, Francisco Vogt, Weverton Cordeiro, Alberto E. Shaeffer-Filho, Marcos Schwarz, Fábio L. Verdi, Christian E. Rothenberg, Gergely Pongracz e Gianni Antichi. SmartNICs: The Next Leap in Networking. Tutorial IEEE NetSoft 2024.
