His research focuses on methodologies and tool support for the development of distributed embedded real-time systems. Carlos E. Pereira is the Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Manufacturing Plant Control (TC 5.1) and will be chairing this TC for the triennium 2005-2008. He has also acted as Vice-Chair for the IFAC Technical Committee on Computers for Control (TC 3.1). He is Associate Editor of the Journal Control Engineering Practice.