BIOGRAPHY

José Marcos Nogueira is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. His areas of interest and research include computer networks, telecommunications and computer networks management, wireless sensor networks, and software development. He received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in Computer Science from the Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais(1979), a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Campinas, Brazil(1985). He held a Post-Doctoral position at the University of British Columbia, Canada(1988/89) and has passed a sabatical year at the universities Marie Curie and Evry in France (2004/2005). He headed the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais from 1998 to 2000. He heads a computer network group at UFMG and has been the technical coordinator of the SIS (System for the Integration of Supervision) Project, where a complex and distributed system for the management of telecommunications networks has been developed. He headed a research project in Wireless Sensor Networks (Fundep by CNPq Brazil) and currently heads some medium-size research projects.

He has served in various roles, including: General Chair(1995)  and TPC Chair (1999 and 2004) of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks -- SBRC; General Chair of IEEE Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium - LANOMS 2001; TPC Co-chair of IEEE IP Operation and Managment Symposium - IPOM 2007; General Co-Chair of IEEE/IFIP Network Operation and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008.

He has been TPC Member of IEEE/IFIP NOMS (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008), IEEE/IFIP IM (2003, 2005, 2007), IEEE LANOMS (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007), IEEE/IFIP MMNS (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), IEEE IPOM (2002, 2007), SBRC (from 1990 to 2008), IEEE/IFIP DSOM (2003 to 2008). He is member of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He has been Secretary and Vice President of the IEEE/ComSoc Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (TCII) from 2003 to 2007. He also participates in the IEEE ComSoc CNOM interest group. He has supervised a number of Ph.D. and Master's students and publish regularly in international conferences and journals.