Juliano Araujo Wickboldt

Bio

Juliano Araujo Wickboldt currently a Professor at the Department of Applied Computing at the Institute of Informatics (INF) of UFRGS. His current research interests include Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Internet of Things (IoT), Digital Twins, and 5G/6G technologies.

During his academic trajectory, Juliano has been a Postdoc Research Fellow at UFRGS. He achieved his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computer science from UFRGS as well. During Ph.D., early in 2015, Juliano was in Waterford, Ireland as a visiting researcher in the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) of the Waterford Institute of Technology, working within the Emerging Networks Laboratory. Before that, he used to be an intern for one year (ended in August 2012) at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. There he was a student member of the Network Research Division (NRD) under the topic of Network Management. When pursuing his master’s degree, back in 2008-2010, he participated in two consecutive research projects called Malia and ChangeLedge conducted in a joint project with HP Labs Bristol and Palo Alto. He has achieved a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in 2006.

Regarding teaching activities, at UFRGS, Juliano is currently responsible for the Introduction to Programming in Python (INF01040) course, which is taught to many (250+) undergraduate students from different courses (Physics, Mathematics, Engineering), and also for the Network Management and Applications (CMP193) course, taught to postgraduate students in Computer Science.