Biography

Flávio R. Wagner received the Dr.-Ing. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1983, the MSc degree in Computer Science in 1977 and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1975, both from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. He is a retired Full Professor of the Institute of Informatics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he served as Dean from 2006 to 2011. He was the Director of the Science Park of UFRGS from 2011 to 2016. He also had two post-doctoral stages at the TIMA Laboratory in Grenoble, France, in 1992 and 2002, and has been an invited professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, in 1994. His main research interest is the design and architecture of electronic embedded systems. He has been Chair of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 10.5, which gathers experts in the field of Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems, from 2001 to 2007, and is an Associate Editor of the journal “Design Automation for Embedded Systems”, from Springer. He served in the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) for 12 years and has been its President in two consecutive terms, from 1999 to 2003. He holds the “Newton Faller Award” of the Brazilian Computer Society, for his accomplishments serving the Society. From 2008 to 2017 he was a Board member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. Since February 2018 he is the President of the Brazilian Chapter of the Internet Society.