Carlos Becker Westphall

Carlos Becker Westphall

Photo in 1987 (age 26)
Born (1961-09-16) September 16, 1961
Fields Computer network, Cloud computing, Security
Institutions Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
University of Toulouse
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Website
www.inf.ufsc.br/~westphal

Carlos Becker Westphall is a Full Professor, since 1993, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is the founder of LANOMS (Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium), and of the Network and Management Laboratory at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

He has contributed to IEEE, as secretary and vice-chair of CNOM (Committee on Network Operation and Management), and as member of IEEE Communications Society Membership Programs Development Board; to IFIP as member of WG6.6 - Management of Networks and Distributed Systems; to Elsevier as editorial board (from 2004 to present) member of the Computer Networks Journal; to Springer as board of editors (from 1996 to 2012) and senior technical editor (from 2003 to 2012) of the Journal of Network and Systems Management; and to IARIA (International Academy, Research, and Industry Association) as Latin America - IARIA Liaison Board Chair (from 2008 to present).

Obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1988, both at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Obtained a D.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Network and Service Management) in 1991, at the University of Toulouse, France.

Honors, awards and achievements

Westphall has published a paper in 1984 entitled "Receiver for modem in accordance with CCITT Recommendation V.22, in Portuguese", enabling the development of this modem in Brazil. He has presented the first master thesis about network management in Brazil, entitled "Proposition for Data Communications Management Functions" in 1988. He was the youngest Full Professor in Brazilian Federal Universities with 31 years old, in 1993. Supervisor of the first thesis of Ph.D. Program in Computer Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in 2000. The thesis was entitled: "Design, Development and Analysis of a Management System for Secure Telecommunication Networks". He has more than 440 publications and has contributed in more than 370 Organizing and/or Technical Program Committees for conferences in the field of Computer Networks and Network Management. Other important contributions was published in the papers entitled:

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