Carlos Eduardo Pereira

Carlos Eduardo Pereira is a Full Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre southern Brazil. Since 2016 he also acts as Director of Operation at EMBRAPII, a Brazilian innovation agency, where he coordinates a network of applied research institutes, the so called EMBRAPII units. Since 2020 he also acts as Vice-President for Technical Activities of the International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC). Prof. Pereira received the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 1995 and holds a MSc in Computer Science and and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. From 2000 to 2001 he was a visiting researcher at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) in Hartford/CT USA, where he was involved in the development of applied research projects for UT companies such Otis, Carrier, Pratt and Whitney, Sikorsky and UT Fuel Cells. From 2005 to 2009 he acted as Technical Director for CETA - an Applied Research Center created by the Federation of Industries in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, whose goal was to develop collaborative research between academia and industry, focusing on the areas of industrial automation, information and communication technologies, and optimization of production processes. He has supervisioned more than 50 PhD and Master thesis and several of his former students are currently helding important positions both in academia as well as in innovative companies (Petrobras, Embraer, FIAT, Daimler-Benz Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Siemens, etc.). Additionally, some of spin-off companies from his group are the companies PONFAC, FALKER, Fueltech, Gyrum etc. His research focuses on methodologies and tool support for the development of distributed real-time embedded systems, with special emphasis on automation applications and the use of distributed objects over industrial communication protocols. He has also worked on several research projects in collaboration with industry, mostly dealing with the development of real-time computer-based systems and applying the concepts developed on his scientific research. Carlos E. Pereira is a researcher level 1 of the Brazilian Research Agency CNPq and is a Member of the Steering Committee for the International Affairs Directorate at CAPES. He has more than 400 technical publications on conferences and journals and has acted as member of International Program Committees for several conferences in the field of industrial automation, manufacturing, industrial protocols, and real-time distributed object computing. He is Deputy Editor-in-chief of the IFAC Journal on Systems and Control, and Associate Editor of the Journal "Control Engineering Practice" and ¨Annual Reviews in Control¨ from Elsevier. He has received some important awards related to his research: in 2012 he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in 2010 he won the "Premio Santander Universidades", being the first place in the area "Tecnologias da Informação, da Comunicacão e da Educação". Research projects under his supervision also got award on contests such as Whirpool Innovation Context - Brazil, 2010 and Brazilian Engineering Award sponsored by Petrobras.

Possui graduação em Engenharia Elétrica (1987) e mestrado em Ciências da Computação (1990), ambos pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS e doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica pela Universidade de Stuttgart da Alemanha (1995). Atualmente é Professor Titular do Departamento de Automação e Controle da UFRGS e Diretor de Operações da Embrapii. É membro da Federação Internacional de Controle Automático - IFAC, sendo atualmente Vice-Presidente para Atividades Técnicas (triênio 2020-2023), tendo sido também membro do IFAC Council (triênios 2011-2014 e triênio 2014-2017), após ter atuado por dois triênios (2005-2011) como Coordenador do Comitê Técnico "Manufacturing Plant Control" (70 pesquisadores membros de mais de 30 países). É sócio sênior da Sociedade Brasileira de Automática (SBA), tendo ocupado os cargos de Presidente do Conselho (2012-2010) e Presidente da Sociedade (2008-2010). Atua também como Deputy Editor-in-chief do IFAC Journal on Systems and Control e como Editor Associado das revistas científica Control Engineering Practice e Annual Reviews in Control. Recebeu diversas premiações, dentre elas o ¨Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award¨ da Fundação Alexander von Humboldt da Alemanha em 2012 e o Premio Santander Universidades na área "Tecnologias da Informação, da Comunicacão e da Educação em 2010. Atuou por 8 anos como Diretor Técnico do Centro de Tecnologias Avançadas CETA - SENAI/RS, um centro de pesquisa aplicadas que busca o desenvolvimento de projetos inovadores, seguindo o modelo de institutos de pesquisa da Sociedade Fraunhofer da Alemanha. Tem experiência na área de Engenharia Elétrica, com ênfase em Automação Eletrônica de Processos Elétricos e Industriais, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: orientação a objetos, sistemas tempo-real, automação industrial, barramentos industriais e engenharia de software.