Universidade Federal da Bahia

Short Bio

Dr. Prazeres is an associate professor in the Web/Internet area at Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) since 2010, where he leads research activities and projects, teaches under-graduate and post-graduate courses, and is advisor for Ph.D, M.Sc. and B.Sc. students. Also at UFBA, Prazeres is a co-founder and leader of a laboratory and CNPq research group (WISER: Web, Internet and Intelligent Systems Research Group). He holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Sao Paulo (USP). He has several publications in international conferences and journals. Prazeres is member of: Brazilian Computer Society (SBC); IEEE Communications Society; IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing; IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community; IEEE Internet of Things Technical Community; ACM SIGWEB (Special Interest Group on Hypertext the Web); W3C Web of Things Community Group. He is interested in research involving topics of Internet of Things, Web of Things, Web Services, Semantic Web, Microservices, Fog Computing, Fog of Things, Web of Data, and Linked Data. Prazeres have coordinated projects in the Internet/Web of Things themes in the last years and have participated on other related projects.