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Mário M. Freire
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Mário M. Freire
Full Professor (Professor Catedrático)
Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior
Rua Marquês de Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
E-mail addresses: mfreire(at)computer.org or mfreire(at)acm.org or mario(at)di.ubi.pt
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Short Biography
Mário M. Freire is a Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, which he joined in the Fall of 1994, and a Researcher of the Multimedia Signal Processing - Covilhã Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), where he maintains an active and well-funded research programme in the field of network and multimedia computing.
Dr. Mário Freire received the Habilitation title in Computer Science from UBI in 2007 and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from UBI in 2000. He received the 2-year Master of Science degree in Systems and Automatics and the 5-year Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1992, respectively, both from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. When he was a M.S student at University of Coimbra, he was also a trainee researcher for a short period in 1993 in the Research Centre of Alcatel-SEL (now Alcatel-Lucent) in Stuttgart, Germany.
Presently, Dr. Mário Freire is the President of the Faculty of Engineering of UBI. He is also the Director of the Center for Computer Science at UBI, which provides computer, networking and software services to all Faculties and Services of the University. Previously, he was the President of the Department of Computer Science at UBI for the terms 2004-2006 and 2006-2009.
He teaches courses on multimedia networking at M.S. and Ph.D. programmes in Computer Science and Engineering at UBI.
Dr. Mario Freire is a licensed Professional Engineer by the Portuguese Order of Engineers – Computer Science and Engineering College and he is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communications Society, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of the Internet Society. He is also the Coordinator of the Computer Science and Engineering College of the Portuguese Order of Engineers – Center Region for the term 2010/2013. He was the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Chapter - Portugal Section for the term 2005-2009.
Research
• Research Group: Multimedia Signal Processing - Cv, which is a research group of Networks and Multimedia Area of Instituto de Telecomunicações, an Associated Laboratory of the Portuguese Government.
• Research Areas: Networking and security issues for multimedia applications; Media processing and communication over heterogeneous or peer-to-peer networks; Multimedia traffic analysis and synthesis; High-speed/optical technologies for multimedia networks; Multimedia cloud computing.
• Registered Patents and Published Research Works:
Publications indexed by scientific databases and their citations: ISI Science Citation Index, Google Scholar Profile, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Search Profile, ACM Digital Library.
Edited Books Published by International Publishing Houses.
Registered International Patents Transferred to Industry (Nokia Siemens Networks).
Articles in International Jornals and Their ISI Impact Factors.
• Membership in Editorial Boards of International Journals:
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (Member of the Editorial Board, 2010 – present).
Journal on Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley & Sons (Associate Editor, 2007 – present).
International Journal of Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons (Associate Editor, 2008 – present).
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Editor, 2007 – 2011).
• Co-Guest Editor of Special Issues in International Journals:
Special Issue on "Secure Communications and Data Management in Ubiquitous Services", International Journal of Communication Systems (John Wiley & Sons), 22(9): 1065–1068, 2009.
Feature Topic on “Security in Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Part II”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 46(4): 86–87, 2008.
Feature Topic on “ Security in Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Part I”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 46(2): 102–103, 2008.
• Chair/Co-chair of the Programme Committee of International Conferences:
Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Track on Networking: SAC 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy, March 26-30, 2012 | SAC 2011, Taichung, Taiwan, March 21–24, 2011 | SAC 2010, Sierre, Switzerland, 22–26 March, 2010 | SAC 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009 | SAC 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, March 16-20, 2008 | SAC 2007, Seoul, Korea, March 11-15, 2007.
International Symposium on Information Security (part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences): IS 2007, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26-27, 2007 | IS 2006, Montpellier, France, October 29 – November 3, 2006.
The 2007 International Workshop on Service, Security and its Data Management Technologies for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU 2007), (jointly held with The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 22 – 25, 2007).
The International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2007), Lisbon, Portugal, January 23-25, 2007.
3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN’2004), Porto, Portugal, October 25-27, 2004.
6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC’2003), Estoril, Portugal, July 23-25, 2003.
• Member of the Programme Committee of Recent International Conferences:
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference: CCNC 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada | CCNC 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada | CCNC 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada.
IEEE International Conference on Communications: ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada | ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan | ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
IEEE Global Communications Conference: GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas | GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Florida.
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing: HPSR 2012, Belgrade, Serbia | HPSR 2011, Cartagena, Spain | HPSR 2010, Richardson, Texas.
IFIP Wireless Days: IFIP Wireless Days 2011, Niagara Falls, Canada | IFIP Wireless Days 2010, Venice, Italy.
IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference: WMNC 2011, Toulouse, France | WMNC 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
• Research Projects: See MSP-Cv Group - R&D Projects.
• Research Software Made Available by the MSP-Cv Group: See MSP-Cv Group - Software.
Teaching
• Courses in 2011/2012:
Communication Architecture and Protocols, MS in Computer Science and Engineering (Fall 2011).
Computer-aided Diagnosis Systems, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (Fall 2011).
Multimedia Networks, MS in Computer Science and Engineering (Spring 2012).
Advanced Topics in Peer-to-Peer Networks, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (Spring 2012).
• All my students should read:
How to Study: A Brief Guide by William J. Rapaport (State University of New York at Buffalo).
Concerns about citing Wikipedia published in Communications of the ACM: Wikipedia Risks, Why You Can’t Cite Wikipedia in My Class.
Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, an open-source networking textbook by Olivier Bonaventure (Université Catholique de Louvain).
Internet Technical Resources by Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University).
Network Monitoring Tools, made available by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
How to Become a Hacker by Eric S. Raymond.
“One of the problems of being a pioneer is you always make mistakes and I never, never want to be a pioneer. It’s always best to come second when you can look at the mistakes the pioneers made”.
Seymour Cray, Public Lecture at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories on the introduction of the CRAY-1, 1976.
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