Sidney Cunha de Lucena

Permanent Professor of PPGI
Research Line: Applied Intelligent Systems and Optimization
Started at PPGI: 01/2007
Work regime: 40h Full Time

Sidney Lucena has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ (1994), a Master’s Degree in Systems and Computing Engineering from UFRJ (1997) and a Doctorate degree in Systems and Computing Engineering from UFRJ (2004). He was an engineering and operations analyst at the Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) from 2001 to 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), in the Department of Applied Computing, and Dean of the Exact Sciences and Technology Center (CCET/UNIRIO), also integrating the teaching staff of the master and doctorate courses of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at UNIRIO. He has experience in Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Networks, mainly working on the following topics: network management, anomaly detection and software-defined networks.