Susana Isabel Barreto de Miranda Sargento

Susana Sargento (http://www.av.it.pt/ssargento) is an Associate Professor with ?Habillitation? in the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications, leading the Network Architectures and Protocols (NAP) group (http://nap.av.it.pt). She received her PhD in 2003 in Electrical Engin. in the University of Aveiro (with a 7 months stay in Rice University in 2000-2001). She joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto between 2002 and 2004, and she was a Guest Faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in August 2008, where she performed Faculty Exchange in 2010/2011.In March 2012, Susana has co-founded a vehicular networking company, Veniam (www.veniam.com), a spin-off of the Universities of Aveiro and Porto, which builds a seamless low-cost vehicle-based internet infrastructure.She has been involved in several FP7 projects (4WARD, Euro-NF, C-Cast, WIP, Daidalos, C-Mobile), EU Coordinated Support Action 2012-316296 "FUTURE-CITIES", national projects, and CMU|Portugal projects (DRIVE-IN with the Carnegie Melon University). In FUTURE-CITIES she was responsible for implementing the network of vehicles on buses and trucks, as well as several fixed stations, counting this time with more than 600 vehicles in the city of Porto, Portugal. She has been TPC-Chair and organizing several international conferences and workshops, such as ACM MobiCom, IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. has also been a reviewer of numerous international conferences and journals, such as IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Networks, IEEE Communications.Her main research interests are in the areas of self-organized networks, in ad-hoc and vehicular mechanisms and protocols, such as routing, mobility, delay-tolerant mechanisms, and content distribution networks.

doctorate at Engenharia de Teleinformática from Universidade de Aveiro (2003).