Sérgio Cavalcante

Résumé
PhD in Electronics Engineering by the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne - UK (1997), MSc in Computer Sciences by the Federal University of Pernambuco UFPE - Brazil (1990) and Electronic Engineer by UFPE (1986). Currently he is the CEO of C.E.S.A.R – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems, Associate Professor at the Center for Informatics - CIn/UFPE, President of the Small Business Committee and board member of AMCHAM – Pernambuco Section.

Formerly he was the President of C.E.S.A.R (2002-2005), Director of Marketing of the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC (2001-2005) and Head of the Dept of Computer Sciences at CIn/UFPE'(2002-2005). As a researcher he works with Information and Communications Technology, more specifically with Embedded and Real Time Systems.

Current positions

CEO of C.E.S.A.R – Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems.
Associate professor of the Center for Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
President of the Small Business Committee and Board member of AMCHAM – (Pernambuco Section)
Director of Marketing of the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC

Former positions

President of C.E.S.A.R.
Coordinator for Cooperation and Business (Centro de Informática - UFPE)
Director of Marketing of the Brazilian Computing Society - SBC

Education

Ph.D. in Electronics - University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England 1997
Thesis' title: A hardware-software co-design system for embedded real-time applications
M.Sc in Computer Science (1990): Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Dissertation's title: A method to improve processes' connectivity on transputer networks
B.S. in Electronics Engineering (1986): Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Main research interests

Embedded systems engineering
Hardware-software co-design methodologies
Real-time systems

Ongoing research projects

MSc

FPGA temporal reutilisation based on real-time scheduling
by Jarbas Cabral

Finished Projects

PhD

Embedded system's design methodology
by Fabio Campos (start on March/2001)

MSc

Middleware for embedded systems
by Genaina Rodrigues (co-supervision)

Object-oriented embedded system's framework
by Edson Lisboa

Macro end micro-mobility in Bluetooth
by Claudio Takahasi

Worst-case execution time on real-time processes
by Paulo Guedes

PISH-RT: a formal-based hardware-software partitioning for real-time systems
by Claudianne Rabelo

Automatic insertion of fault-tolerance in VHDL descriptions (in portuguese)
by Ana Carla Santos

Music Bench – a benchmark for wave-to-MIDI transcription tools
by Henrique Leão (Co-supervision. Dissertation presented on September/2000)

Formal specification and validation of real-time systems
by Adnam Sherif (Co-supervision. Dissertation presented on March/2000)

Undergraduate projects

Requirements engineering for embedded systems
by Marília Lima (Finished on July/2000)

Fault tolerance for embedded systems (in portuguese)
by Ana Carla Santos (Finished on July/2000)

Real-time operating system for the 8051 microcontroller
by Aldênio Burgos (Finished on December/2000)

Java for embedded Systems
by Wellington Silva (Finished on July/2001)