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Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca received his Electrical Engineer
(1984) and MSc in Computer Science (1987) degrees from The Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, and the MSc (1993) and Ph.D (1994) degrees
in Computer Engineering from The University
of Southern California. He receive the title of
“Livre Docente” in
Computer Networks from the He is a
Full Professor at Institute of Computing of The University of Campinas, He
received the Medal of the Chancelor of the University of Pisa (2007). He is the
recipient of the 2003 State University of Campinas Zeferino Vaz award for
academic productivity in Computer Science, the Elsevier Computer Network
Journal Editor of Year 2001 award, the 1994 University of Southern California
International Book award and the Brazilian Computer Society First Thesis and
Dissertations award. He is listed in Marqui's Who is Who in the World,
Who's Who in Science and Engineering. His graduate students have received
eight awards in Latin America Thesis contests. Nelson
Fonseca has published over 180 refereed papers. He is
the EiC of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He served as EiC of the
IEEE Communications Society Electronic Newsletter(2004-2007), Associate EiC
of IEEE Communications Surveys and
Tutorials (2006) and Editor of the Global Communications Newsletter
(1999-2002). He is on the editorial board of
Computer Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,
the IEEE Communications Magazine. He served as Associate editor for
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (1999-2004), for the Brazilian Journal of
Telecommunications (2001-2004) and for the Journal of the Brazilian Computer
Society (2002-2007). He co-edited Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet
Era, Elsevier, 2001, and organized several special issues to Computer
Networks Journal, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE
Communications Magazine Journal of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society
and Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. Dr.
Fonseca co-chaired the QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium
(IEEE ICC2009, ICC 2008, ICC 2007, IEEE ICC 2006, IEEE ICC 2004, IEEE ICC
2003) , IEEE ICC 2005 Next Generation Networks for Universal Services and
IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 General Symposium. He was the Technical Chair of the 2008
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks
and the chair of the 2003 Brazilian Workshop on Performance Evaluation
of Computer and Communications Systems.
He was Vice-Technical Chairman of the International Teletraffic
Congress 17 (2001), chairman of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Design and Analysis
of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'98), vice-chair of
CAMAD2000, vice-chair of IEEE Globecom'99 Multimedia Technology and Services
Symposium and has served as technical committee member for several IEEE
conferences. Currently,
he is the ComSoc Director for Latin America. He served as IEEE ComSoc
Director for On-Line Services (2002-2003), and Chair of the IEEE ComSoC
Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee
(2005-2007), and Chair of IEEE Comsoc Technical Commitee on Multimedia
Communications (2006-2008).
He was also Chair of ComSoc Cluster of technical committees on
Vertical Issues on Communications. He gave
tutorials in several major international conferences such as IEEE ICC and
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nfonseca@ic.unicamp.br