Professor Loureiro holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada, 1995. His main research areas are mobile, ubiquitous and autonomic computing, computer networks and distributed systems. In the last 10 years he has published over 100 papers in international conferences and journals. Since 1996, when he became a faculty member at UFMG, Professor Loureiro has received six times the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award in Computer Science.