Renato Mariz de Moraes
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Electrical Engineering  
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel:(831) 459-5304
Fax:(831) 459-4829
Email: renato at soe.ucsc.edu
URL: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~renato

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    - Ad Hoc Networks
    - Communication Networks
    - Information Theory and Coding
    - MIMO Systems
    - Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos

EDUCATION

    - University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC),  U.S.A
        Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, expected August  2005.
        Advisors: Prof. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Hamid R. Sadjadpour

    - State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
        Master degree in Electrical Engineering, 1998.    
        Thesis: Channel Capacity and Coding of a Chaotic Laser
        Advisors: Prof. Reginaldo Palazzo Jr., Prof. J. R. Rios Leite, and Prof. Bartolomeu F. Uchoa-Filho

    - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil
        Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, 1996.

EXPERIENCE

    - Department of Electrical Engineering
        University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
        Position: Graduate student researcher, 09/2002--present.
        Work in the Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG) advised by Prof. J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Prof. Hamid Sadjadpour.
            Focus on capacity and delay tradeoffs  for  wireless ad hoc networks.  

    - Department of Electrical Engineering
        University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
        Position: Grader for undergraduate Signals and Systems class (EE103) , Fall 2002.
        Reader/grader of students' homeworks.

    - Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics
        University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
        Position: Graduate student researcher, 08/2000--08/2002.
        Work in the High Frequency Lab. in the Center for Superconductivity Research with focus on analysis of RF stimulus on non-linear circuits

    - TIM - TELECOM ITALIA MOBILE (Brazilian Holding)
        Address: Av. C. da B. Vista, 800, B. Vista, Recife-PE / Brazil
        Position: Network Engineer
        Period: 06/1999 to 07/2000


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

        TECHNICAL REFEREE

                - Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2005
                - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2004-2005
                - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference  (GLOBECOM), 2005
                - IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2005
                - Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), 2005
                - IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), 2004
                - IEEE GLOBECOM Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Workshop, 2004
                - International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC), 2004


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Mobility-Capacity-Delay Trade-off in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Accepted for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal.

  2. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "A New Communication Scheme for MANETs," In Proc. of IEEE WirelessCom (Symposium on Information Theory), Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 13 -16, 2005.

  3. X. Yu, R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Capacity of MIMO Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," In Proc. of IEEE WirelessCom (Symposium on Information Theory), Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 13 -16, 2005.

  4. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Making Ad Hoc Networks Scale Using Mobility and Multi-Copy Forwarding," In Proc. of IEEE Globecom, Dallas, Texas, USA, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.

  5. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, ``Reducing Delay while Maintaining Capacity in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Using Multiple Random Routes,'' In Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 7-10, 2004.

  6. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Throughput-Delay Analysis of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with a Multi-Copy Relaying Strategy," In Proc. of IEEE SECON, Santa Clara, California, USA, October 2004.

  7. R. M. de Moraes, H. R. Sadjadpour, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "On Mobility-Capacity-Delay Trade-off in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," In Proc. of IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.

  8. R. M. de Moraes and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Receiver-Initiated Collision Avoidance in Multi-Hop Ad Hoc Networks," In Proc. of International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'04), Las Vegas, USA, June 2004.

  9. R. M. de Moraes and S. M. Anlage, "Effects of RF Stimulus and Negative Feedback on Nonlinear Circuits," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, pp. 748-754, Apr 2004.

  10. R. M. de Moraes and S. M. Anlage, "Unified model and reverse recovery nonlinearities of the driven diode resonator,'' Physical Review E, vol. 68, 026201, Aug 2003.

  11. R. M. de Moraes, B. F. Uchoa-Filho, C. Pimentel, R. Pallazo Jr., and J. R. Rios Leite, "Shannon Capacity and Codes for Communicating with a Chaotic Laser ," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol.50,  pp. 882-887,  Jun 2002.

  12. R. M. de Moraes, "Channel Capacity and Coding of a Chaotic Laser", Master Thesis, FEEC - State University of  Campinas, UNICAMP, Sao Paulo-Brazil, Sept 1998.

  13. R. M. de Moraes, L. de B. Oliveira Neto, and J. R. Rios Leite, "Simulation of masked communication with chaotic lasers", Journal of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 123-128,  Dec 1997 (Invited Paper).

  14. R. M. de Moraes, L. de B. Oliveira Neto and J. R. Rios Leite, "Analog Circuits Simulation of Communication with Chaotic Lasers," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 70, pp. 1357-1359, Mar 1997.