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   Mar 22th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou, China.

   Feb 21th
    2012
Conference paper accepted
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.

   Feb 13th
    2012
Successful PhD thesis defense
Rafael has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Towards Fault Reactiveness in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots"

   Feb 7th
    2012
NSERC IRDF Fellowship awarded
Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Jan 11th
    2012
OCE First Job awarded
First Job fellowship awarded by the Ontario Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.

   Aug 23th
    2011
MITACS Accelerate Fellowship awarded
The research project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been awarded a MITACS Accelerate PhD fellowship.

 June 5th
     2011
Conference paper accepted
The paper "An Evolving Risk Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011).

 
Awards
 


    		• 2012, Feb 7th: Industrial Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.




    		• 2012, Jan 11th: Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)'s First Job award with Larus Technologies Corporation as the industrial partner.




    		• 2011, Aug 23th: MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship awarded to the project "Online Risk-Driven Management Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks".




    		• 2011, May 12th: IEEE CIS "Walter Karplus" Graduate Student Research Grant awarded to the project "A Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Approach to the Scalable Replacement of Damaged Sensors by a Team of Mobile Robots".




    		• 2011, May 12th: Travel Grant awarded by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Ottawa to attend the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)




    		• 2010, Nov 15th: MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship awarded to the project "Risk-Driven Coverage Formation for Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks".




    		• 2010, Jun 9th: IEEE CIS Student Travel Grant awarded for participation at the 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010).




    		• 2010, Feb 4th: 1st Prize Poster Presentation Award in the Computer Science Department at the Engineering Faculty Day, University of Ottawa with the poster "Artificial Ant Colonies for Coverage Repair in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks"




    		• 2009 – 2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).




    		• 2009 – 2010 Excellence Scholarship from University of Ottawa.




    		• 2008 – 2012 International Tuition Fee Scholarship from University of Ottawa.




    		• 2007 Yearly Award of the Cuban Academy of Sciences granted to the work “Models for building classifiers by using fuzzy sets” in conjunction with other seven authors.




    		• National Award granted by the Youth Technical Brigades (2007) for his outstanding research commitment.




    		• Provincial Award of the Youth Technical Brigades (BTJ) for his contribution to the preservation of the environment by means of the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques (2006).




    		• Summa cum laude graduate (gold diploma) as Bachelor in Computer Science (2003).
     
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