Advisor (with Paulo Freitas de Araujo Filho) of one of the three Best M.Sc. Theses defended in Brazil in 2024 among all Computing Areas (M.Sc. Thesis: Enhancing cybersecurity of automotive Ethernet networks with deep-learning-based intrusion detection systems. Advisee: Luigi Fernando Marques da Luz, UFPE)
Advisor (with Paulo Freitas de Araujo Filho) of the Best M.Sc. Thesis Runner-up defended in Brazil in 2024 in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (M.Sc. Thesis: Enhancing cybersecurity of automotive Ethernet networks with deep-learning-based intrusion detection systems. Advisee: Luigi Fernando Marques da Luz, UFPE)
Advisor of one the three Scientific Initiation projects that received a Honorable Mention in Physical Sciences and Mathematics (Ciências Exatas), Jornada de Iniciação Científica da FACEPE, 2025. (Advisee: Hugo de Almeida Medeiros, Computer Engineering, UFPE).
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2025-2028
Recipient of the Undergraduate Teaching Award, Centro de Informática, UFPE, 2024
Advisor (with Georges Kaddoum) of the Best Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up defended in Brazil in 2023 among all Computing Areas (Doctoral dissertation: Towards intelligent security mechanisms for connected things. Advisee: Paulo Freitas de Araújo Filho, UFPE)
Advisor (with Georges Kaddoum) of the Best Doctoral Dissertation defended in Brazil in 2023 in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (Doctoral dissertation: Towards intelligent security mechanisms for connected things. Advisee: Paulo Freitas de Araújo Filho, UFPE)
Advisor of the only Brazilian recipient of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2022 (PhD candidate: Paulo Freitas de Araújo Filho, UFPE)
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2022-2025
Co-recipient of the Best Paper Runner-up of Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC 2019) (out of 228 submissions and 80 accepted papers), Gramado, Brazil (paper: Novo algoritmo para provisão de banda de guarda adaptativa em redes ópticas elásticas — in Portuguese).
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2019-2022
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2016-2019
The Watchful Sleep mode is now the only allowed power saving technique in 40-Gigabit-capable passive optical networks (NG-PON2), ITU-T, 2015.
The Watchful Sleep mode, a novel ONU power management mode that improves the energy efficiency in TDM PONs, which we published in the paper Unifying sleep and doze modes for energy-efficient PON systems, is now an ITU-T standard, 2014.
Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award in the Workshop em Redes de Acesso em Banda Larga (WRA), co-located with SBRC 2014, Florianópolis, Brazil (paper: Eficiência Energética em Redes Ópticas de Acesso de Próxima geração — in Portuguese).
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2013-2016
CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship Award, 2010-2013
Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 (2nd GreenComm), Hawaii, USA (paper: Sleep mode for energy saving PONs: Advantages and drawbacks). Google Scholar citations of this paper can be found here