He got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institut National Politechnique de Toulouse (INPT-2005) developed at LAAS-CNRS. He was the general chair of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC-2015 http://sbrc2015.ufes.br/eng/ ). Recently, he is leading R&D activities in the field of SDN such as the KeyFlow project at NERDS (Núcleo de Estudos em Redes Definidas por Software) Lab. His current research interests include software-defined networks, cloud computing, future internet, network function virtualization, network performance analysis.