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Marco Aurélio Spohn 

Associate Professor 

maspohn at dsc.ufcg.edu.br
marco.spohn at gmail.com

VoIP:  +55 83 1075 2051
Fone: +55 83 3310 1122 Ext. 2214
Fax: +55 83 3310 1273

Marco Aurélio Spohn is an Associate Professor of Computer Science  at the Federal University of Campina Grande ( UFCG), where he performs research in the fields of computer networks, distributed systems, grid computing, wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks.

Prof. Spohn received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 1995 and 1997 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in 2005. During his Ph.D. Marco was part of the Computer Communications Research Group headed by Prof. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (top 900 most cited authors in Computer Science out of over 790K authors!).

Academic Genealogy!!!




Technical Program Committee member of:

ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN) 2006, 2007, 2008

Reviewer of:

Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) Since 2006
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Journal (Rep. of Korea) Since 2006
Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS) - IEEE/IFIP  2008
IEEE WCNC 2006, 2007
IEEE WirelessCom 2005
Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT) 2007
Simposio Regional de Tolerancia a Falhas (First Regional Fault Tolerance Symposium), Brazil 1996



Graduate Alumni

Celso Augusto Raposo Lisboa Brennand M.Sc., February 2008


Graduate Students

Paulo Sérgio Sausen Ph.D Candidate; in progress!
Sidney Doria M. Sc. Candidate in CS; in progress since 2006.
Pablo Gustavo Soares Tiburcio M. Sc. Candidate in CS; in progress since 2007.
Elmano Ramalho Cavalcanti M. Sc. Candidate; in progress since 2007.
Dalton Cezane Gomes Valadares M. Sc. Program; in progress since March/2008.
Larissa Lucena Vasconcelos M. Sc. Program; in progress since March/2008.


Tutorials and Presentations

Ourgrid - An open grid for Bag-of-Tasks applications - Presentation - Video  (IBERGRID, May 2007, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Tutorial on Wireless Sensor Networks by Prof. Katia Obraczka (UCSC) at UFCG on May/29th (2006)


Contact: Marco Aurélio Spohn maspohn at dsc.ufcg.edu.br