Michele Nogueira of Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Computer Science Department.

In this talk, Dr. Michele Nogueira will present her insights from academia to motivate students and young professionals to follow their goals and dreams in a STEM career.

Dr. Nogueira correlates her journey in her successful engineering career to a triathlon training she has followed in order to complete the race called "70.3 Ironman".

Biography:

Michele Nogueira is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She received her doctorate in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne Université, France. She was on a sabbatical leave at Carnegie Mellon University, USA (2016-2017). Her research interests include wireless networks, security, and dependability. She has worked on providing resilience to self-organized, cognitive and wireless networks by adaptive and opportunistic approaches. Dr. Nogueira was one of the pioneers in addressing survivability issues in self-organized wireless networks, being the work “A Survey of Survivability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, one of her prominent scientific contributions. She has been a recipient of Academic Scholarships from Brazilian Government in her undergraduate and graduate years; and of international grants such as the ACM SIGCOMM Geodiversity program. She has served as Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine. She serves as chair for the IEEE ComSoc Internet Technical Committee. She is an ACM and IEEE Senior Member.

Email:

Address:Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Computer Science Department, Rua Reitor Píres Albuquerque, ICEx - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 31270-901