Edison Pignaton de Freitas is a Computer Engineer with the Military Institute of
Engineering in Brazil (2003); he
received his M.Sc in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio Grande do
Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil (2007), and his Ph.D degree in Computer Science and
Engineering from Halmstad University in Sweden in 2011. Currently, he holds
an associate professor position at UFRGS, is Secretary for
International Relations, and develops research in the Graduate Program in
Computer Science and the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering. His
research interests are mainly in the areas of computer networks,
Internet of Things, real-time systems, multi-agent systems, and unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs).