Mario Meireles Teixeira

Mario Meireles Teixeira joined the Institute as a Visiting Fellow in March 2014. He is an associate professor at UFMA, Brazil, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His broad areas of interest are distributed systems, web services and peer-to-peer networks. His current research involves delivering multimedia over peer-to-peer networks based on mobile devices and also the creation of authoring tools for end-user development of multimedia objects for educational purposes. His work at the Hariri Institute focuses on networking and VM allocation issues in clouds and on the development of cloud-enabled applications.