Professional Associations
Association Period
ACM Europe Council 2021 - 2023
N2Women 2020 - 2021
IEEE Senior Member Since 2012
ACM Senior Member Since 2010
ANICT -National Association of Science and Technology Researchers 2009 - 2012
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Member of scientific event committee Conference 28th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP 2020) iEEE 2020
Member of scientific event committee Conference 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WISEE 2020) IEEE 2020
Member of scientific event committee Conference IEEE 6th International Conference on Smart Computing (IEEE SmartComp 2020) IEEE 2020
Member of scientific event committee Conference The 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2020) ACM 2019
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Half-day Tutorial: Grafting opportunistic communications onto ICN ACM ICN 2017 2018
Member of scientific event committee Conference ACM SIGCOMM Artifacts Evaluation Committee Member ACM SIGCOMM 2018
Coordination of non-scientific event Workshop ULOOP Project Exhibition, ICT 2013 ICT 2013 2013
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference EU IST FP7 ULOOP Second Industrial Workshop Alcatel Lucent and COPELABS/ULHT 2011
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference Wordcamp workshop in Portugal 2011
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference User-centric Networking Workshop 2010, Globecom 2010 COPELABS/ULHT 2010
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference Dagstuhl Seminar reference 10372 - User-centric Networking Dagstuhl Seminars, Leibniz Zentrum für Informatiks 2010
Coordination of non-scientific event Workshop ReCoop Project Workshop, CeBit 2010 INESC TEC and Nonius Software Lda 2010
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference User-centric Networking workshop, first edition ACM CoNext 2009 2009
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Debate Session [https://www.inesctec.pt/en/news/proposal-from-utm-is-one-of-the-finalists-of-ict-2008-19174#about||https://www.inesctec.pt/en/news/proposal-from-utm-is-one-of-the-finalists-of-ict-2008-19174#about] INESC TEC 2008
Member of scientific event committee Conference IFIP Networking 2021 IFIP 26 - 29
Member of scientific event committee Conference Global IoT Summit Since 25
Member of scientific event committee Conference 5th IEEE international conference on Smart City Innovations IEEE 24 - 31
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress 11th CONASENSE international symposium CONASENSE 10 - 11
Member of scientific event committee Conference ACM CoNEXT Artifacts Evaluation Committee Member ACM CoNext 2018 --
Member of scientific event committee Conference Technical Programme Committee member ACM ICN 2018 --
Member of scientific event committee Conference Technical Programme Committee member ICACCI 2016 --
Member of scientific event committee Conference Technical Programme Committee member ACM CoNext 2015 --
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference Technical Programme Committee member --
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference BCFIC - IEEE Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communication TPC BCFIC - IEEE Baltic Congress on Future Internet and Communication --
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference IEEE Globecom 2010 ACN Workshop --
Awards
Award Description Year
fortiss Best Mentor Award 2020 2020
One to Watch 2017/2018 - Senception 2017
Research supplement by Institute for Advanced Internet Research (ICAIR), Evanston, USA, Visiting Scholar. 2000
PhD scholarship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, scholarship reference PRAXIS XXI/BD/18246/98. 1999
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Scientific journal editor MDPI Sensors - Topics Board -- -- Since 2021 Portuguese
Scientific journal editor IEEE Network -- -- Since 2021 English
Scientific journal editor IEEE Networks -- -- Since 2020 English
Scientific journal editor ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Special Issue on the Evolution of IoT Networking Architectures -- 2019 - 2020 English
Scientific journal editor IEEE ACCESS -- 2018 - 2020 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Networks and Communication Technologies Magazine (CCSNET), -- Since 2005 English
Scientific journal editor IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on User-centric Networking and Services, Part I -- -- English
Scientific journal editor Guest editor, IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on User-centric Networking and Services, Part II -- -- English
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
fortiss GmbH (Industrial IoT) Germany (Munique) Head (IIoT competence center) Since 2019
University Lusófona (DEISI) Portugal Invited Associate Professor Since 2019
Senception Lda (-) Portugal (Lisboa) Co-founder/CEO 2013 - 2019
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ECATI) Portugal (Lisboa) Professora Associada/Investigadora Sénior 2010 - 2019
INESC TEC (UTM) Portugal (Porto) Senior Researcher/Area Leader 2007 - 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Ko CG (COO RTP NT NCT) Germany (Munich) Senior Researcher 2007
Siemens AG (Corporate Technology, Information and Communications) Germany (Munich) Research Scientist 2004 - 2007
FCCN (WAN) Portugal (Lisboa) Engineer 1998 - 2003
Grupo Forum (Forum Online) Portugal (Lisboa) Engineer/Coordinator 1996 - 1998
University of Lisbon (DI, FCUL) Portugal (Lisboa) Teaching Assistant 1996
Bundeswehr University Munich (IIS) Germany (Munich) Senior Researcher --
Products
Product Type Product Title Detailed Description Year
Software (Proprietary) PerSense PerSense: Communication and Interaction Platform 2018
Software (Open Source) Oi! Instant Messenger Oi! an Instant Messenger for Named Data Networking 2017
Software (Open Source) NSense NSense 2016
Patent EP 13186562.9 EP 13186562.9, Rute Sofia, Method and Apparatus for ranking visited networks. COPELABS (SITILABS). 2013
Patent EP 13191667.8 Method and Apparatus for communication in a wireless network 2013
Patent EP1903718 EP1903718, T. Camilo, R. Sofia, S. Pasqualini, S. Wevering, P. Nunes. Method for forwarding data packets and access node device. Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG. 2008
Patent WO2008104497 WO2008104497, R. Sofia, T. Camilo, A. Hof, P. Sandrine, P. Nunes, Method for enabling network node redundancy in an access network, messages and nodes. Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG. 2008
Patent EP1883196 EP1883196, R. Sofia, A. Hof, S. Wevering. Method for packet-based data transmission in a network having mobility functionality. Siemens AG. 2008
Patent WO2008055908 WO2008055908, T. Camilo, R. Sofia, S. Pasqualini, S. Wevering, P. Nunes. Method for forwarding address prefix data in a network and device. Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG. 2008
Patent WO2008031868 (A1)/US2008069107 WO2008031868 (A1)/US2008069107, R. Sofia, R. Guérin, S. Ray. Scalable packet based network. Siemens AG. 2008
Patent EP 1883196 EP 1883196 A1, R. Sofia, Axel Hof, Stefan Wevering. Method for packet-based data transmission in a network having mobility functionality, Siemens AG, 2008. 2008
Patent DE102006015044 DE102006015044, T. Camilo, R. Sofia, S. Pasqualini, S. Wevering, P. Nunes. Method of communication of terminal devices via packet-switched mobile radio networks. Siemens AG. 2006