Dr. Anderson Augusto Simiscuka

Anderson Augusto Simiscuka received the B.Sc. degree in Information Systems in 2014 from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland, in 2020. He has worked in several telecom and software development projects in companies such as Wittel (2010-2013), DCU/Ericsson (E-Stream Project, 2014), Arkadin (2014) and IBM (2015). His research is mainly focused on Internet of Things (IoT) communications performance and rich media integration with IoT devices. He is a member of the IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Broadcast Technology Society. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Performance Engineering Laboratory and the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University. He is involved in the EU Horizon 2020-funded project TRACTION, which focuses on Opera co-creation for a social transformation. In this project, he is responsible for developing tools, algorithms and technologies to enable real-time communications in a rich-media environment supporting adaptive video, virtual reality and 360º multimedia content, in a collaborative environment.