Pedro Cruz

DEL/Poli/UFRJ cruz at gta.ufrj.br

I am an Associate Professor (Professor Adjunto) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and I hold an Electrical Engineering PhD from UFRJ. I developed a thesis on mobile sensing with fixed trajectories. The thesis received the best thesis award in the SBRC2021 thesis award and honourable mention in the Prêmio CAPES de tese. The contributions of my thesis can be found in my publications page. I was advised by Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa and Rodrigo de Souza Couto.

In the year of 2019 I took a one year sandwich internship in Sorbonne Université, under the supervision of Anne Fladenmuller and Marcelo Dias de Amorim.

I currently teach the EEL280 - Logic Circuits (Circuitos Lógicos) course.

I taught the Operating Systems course (Sistemas Operacionais - EEL770) in the semesters of 2017.2 and 2018.1. The course page, in Portuguese, is available here.

My research interest are Internet of Things, Edge Computing and Network Optimization.

I am part of the Internship Comitee for the Computer and Information Engineering (Comissão de Estágio da Engenharia de Computação e Informação). If you need information about internship rules, check the Poli website and, after, send an email to comissaoestagio.computacao@poli.ufrj.br.


Courses taught

Logic Circuits (Circuitos Lógicos)

Students level: undergraduate

Fundamentals of Logic Circuits (Circuitos Lógicos - EEL280) to undergraduate students of Electronics Engineering, Computing Engineering and Automation Engineering. The webpage of the course is available here.

2022.1 & 2022.2

Operating Systems (Sistemas Operacionais)

Students level: undergraduate

Fundamentals of Operating Systems (Sistemas Operacionais - EEL770) to undergraduate students of Electronics Engineering, Computing Engineering and Automation Engineering. The webpage of the course is available here.

2017.2 & 2018.1

Mathematics

Students level: highschool

Mathematics teaching for students aiming approval into college or university. Part of Pré-Universitário Comunitário Rubem Alves.

2014 - 2018

Tutoring

Mobile Networks (Internet Mobil et Ambiant)

Students level: master

Help students with directed studies and practical and theoretical assignments. Formulate questions to the exams and grade their answers. Activities developed in English and French. Coordinator: Anne Fladenmuller.

2017.1

Programming I (Computação I)

Students level: undergraduate

Help students with practical activities and assignments. Coordinator: Miguel Elias Mitre Campista

2017.1

Graph Theory (Teoria dos Grafos)

Students level: undergraduate

Help students in the activities proposed by teachers. Grade projects developed by students. Coordinators: Ricardo Marroquim and Celina Miraglia Herrera de Figueiredo.

2012

Awards

  • Honorable mention in the Prêmio CAPES de tese. One of the 3 best PhD thesis in Brazil for Engineering IV group, 2022.
  • Best PhD thesis of the SBRC2021 thesis award.
  • Best PhD Electrical Engineering thesis of the CREA thesis award.
  • Honorable mention in the main track of SBRC 2017.
  • Best demo in demo sessions of SBRC 2017. Demo available in repository in GitHub.
  • Honorable mention in Jornada de Iniciação Científica of UFRJ (Scientific Initiation Journey), 2012. Ranked among the top 10 out of 624 works.

Publications

Magazine and Journal Papers

  1. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K.; FLADENMULLER, A.; AMORIM, M. D. A delay-aware coverage metric for bus-based sensor networks. COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, v. 156, p. 192-200, 2020. (Impact Factor: 2.766)
  2. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K.; FLADENMULLER, A.; AMORIM, M. D. Per-Vehicle Coverage in a Bus-Based General-Purpose Sensor Network. IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, 2020. Accepted for publication. (Impact Factor: 3.546)
  3. COUTO, R. S.; SADOK, H.; CRUZ, P.; DA SILVA, F. F.; SCIAMMARELLA, T.; CAMPISTA, M. E. M.; COSTA, L. H. M.K.; VELLOSO, P. B.; RUBINSTEIN, M. G. Building an IaaS cloud with droplets: a collaborative experience with OpenStack. JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, v. 117, p. 59-71, 2018. (Impact Factor: 5.273)
  4. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K.; FLADENMULLER, A.; AMORIM, M. D. On the coverage of bus-based mobile sensing. SENSORS, v. 18, p. 1976, 2018. (Impact Factor: 3.031)
  5. CRUZ, P.; SILVA, F. F.; PACHECO, R. G.; COUTO, R. S.; VELLOSO, P. B.; CAMPISTA, M. E. M.; COSTA, L. H. M. K. SensingBus: using bus lines and fog computing for smart sensing the city. IEEE CLOUD COMPUTING, v. 5, p. 58-69, 2018. (Impact Factor: 4.393)
  6. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S. ; COSTA, L. H. M.K. An algorithm for sink positioning in bus-assisted smart city sensing. Future Generation Computer Systems, v. 1, p. 1, 2017. (Impact Factor: 5.768)


Conference Papers

  1. ORTIZ, F. M.; CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K. Caracterização de uma rede sem-fio de baixa potência e longo alcance para Internet das Coisas. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC), 2018, Campos do Jordão. Anais do Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores. Porto Alegre: SBC, 2018. v. 36.
  2. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S. ; COSTA, L. H. M. K. . Análise da cobertura espacial de uma rede de sensores baseada em ônibus urbanos. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC), 2018, Campos do Jordão. Anais do Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores. Porto Alegre: SBC, 2018. v. 36.
  3. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K.; LUCENA, A. Estratégias de pré-processamento para posicionamento de pontos de coleta em redes de sensores móveis. In: L Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional, 2018, Rio de Janeiro. Anais do L Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional, 2018.
  4. CRUZ, P.; COUTO, R. S.; COSTA, L. H. M. K. Um algoritmo de posicionamento de pontos de coleta para uma rede de sensores baseada em ônibus urbanos. In: XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, 2017, Belém. Anais do XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), 2017. p. 1-14.
  5. CRUZ, P.; SILVA, F. F.; PACHECO, R. G.; COUTO, R. S.; VELLOSO, P. B.; CAMPISTA, M. E. M.; COSTA, L. H. M. K. SensingBus: um sistema de sensoriamento baseado em ônibus urbanos. In: Salão de Ferramentas do XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, 2017, Belém. Anais do XXXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), 2017. p. 1-8.
  6. CRUZ, P.; NETO, J. B. PINTO; CAMPISTA, M. E. M.; COSTA, L. H. M. K. On the accuracy of data sensing in the presence of mobility. In: 2016 7th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF), 2016, Búzios. 2016 7th International Conference on the Network of the Future (NOF), 2016. p. 1.