Dr. Nakamura holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2007. His research areas are ad hoc and sensor networks, ubiquitous and autonomic computing, computer networks and distributed systems. In the last 5 years, he has published regularly in international conferences and journals related to sensor networks, and also presented two tutorials (ACM SIGMOD 2008 and IEEE CIT 2008) about the use of information fusion in wireless sensor networks.