Research Network of Brazilians Abroad
Federal University of Pará (Brazil) | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) | Brock University (Canada) | University of Twente (Netherlands) | Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) | New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology (USA)
Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Duration: December 2024 - December 2026
Focus on three research lines and integration.
Federated Learning, Tiny ML, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
SDN, Open RAN, and Data Plane Programmability.
Attacks and Defenses in Artificial Intelligence for IoT applications.
4 Student co-supervisions.
10+ publications
3 Executed missions and one sandwich doctorate.
TBA.
IEEE Access (2025).
Access HereIEEE NOMS (2025).
Access HereIEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications - IEEE ISCC (2025).
Access HereCoUrb (2025).
Access HereNational Meeting on Artificial and Computational Intelligence - ENIAC (2025).
Access HereBrazilian Symposium on Cybersecurity (SBSeg) - SBSEG (2025).
Access HereIEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference - CCNC (2025).
Access HereIEEE 30th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD).
Access HereThe project officially began on December 26, 2024. In January 2025, the first general meeting was held online to align researchers and plan activities according to the project lines.
In October 2025, Yuri Melo e Silva do Espírito Santo, a PhD student from the Graduate Program in Computing at the Federal University of Pará, began his sandwich doctorate at Brock University, Canada. Yuri Santo's doctoral research is being developed within the scope of this project, under the supervision of professors Gláucio Carvalho, André Riker, and Antônio Abelém. His research topic is related to the development of homomorphic encryption mechanisms applied to Artificial Intelligence based on Federated Decision Trees.
In December 2025, Douglas Almeida Vidal, a PhD student from the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Pará, conducted a technical visit mission to Brock University, Canada. Douglas Vidal is developing research within the scope of this project under the supervision of professors Glauco Gonçalves and Gláucio Carvalho. His research topic is related to the development of Online Federated Decision Trees.
In December 2025, Weverton Cordeiro, a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, conducted a technical visit mission to Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Weverton Cordeiro is developing research within the scope of this project in the network softwarization line, in collaboration with Professor Giovane Moura.
Between October 2025 and January 2026, undergraduate student Eduardo Lourenço (Computer Engineering) and master's students Cléber Reis and Victor Leite (UFPA Graduate Program) defended their theses. The works were developed within this project, specifically focusing on data privacy and AI.
From March 18 to 20, 2026, researcher André Riker, project coordinator, conducted a technical visit mission to New Mexico Tech, United States. The mission enabled a meeting with Prof. Adônis Leal, a faculty member at New Mexico Tech. During the visit, discussions, alignment, and strengthening of research interests in the "Embedded AI in IoT" line were conducted, along with plans for future collaborations between the Federal University of Pará and New Mexico Tech.
ariker (at) ufpa.br
cs.andreriker.com