Rayner Gomes Sousa received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Public University Center of Mineiros (UNIFIMES) and Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) (1998 and 2002, respectively), a was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI) in northeastern Brazil, teaching subjects in computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, and object-oriented programming. In addition, he is interested in heuristics for resource allocation in computer networks applied in the context of 5G and the Internet of Things, especially with a focus on adapting metaheuristics and neural networks to scalability.