Ivanovitch Silva received BS (2006), MSc (2008), and PhD (2013) degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, and a co-participation designation from the University of Porto (Sandwich), Portugal. Additionally, he concluded a short technological course on big data and social analytics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2016). He is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation (DCA). In 2021, he was nominated as a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy. He worked as a vice-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PPgEEC) of UFRN from 2019 to 2022. He is an associate member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Automática (SBA) and an IEEE senior member. His research interests include embedded AI, the internet of intelligent vehicles, and network science when applied to engineering problems.