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I have a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Unisinos University and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I also studied one year at the College of Information and Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea.

I currently work as a software engineer in the Live platform at Brightcove where I help build new features into the module.

Industry Experience

• Brightcove Inc. "Software Engineer", 11/2020 - Present

  • Develop and scope new features in React and Typescript for the Live module.
  • Work across teams to improve the company's internal design system.
  • Collaborate with Brightcove Research, participating in conferences and community talks (such as Boston Video Dev and Demuxed).

• Brightcove Inc. "Software Engineer in Test", 09/2019 - 11/2020

  • Design and develop automated and manual tests for the Live platform.
  • Groomed customer bugs, coding and shipping solutions for small issues.
  • Awarded Best Customer Focus project on internal Hack Week 2020.

• Brightcove Inc. "Software Engineer Intern", 01/2019 - 06/2019

  • Migrated and expanded automation tests to Testcafe (Javascript based) for the Gallery and Live teams.
  • Worked on Jira tickets, shipping code to production using React.
  • Helped maintain Jenkins pipelines.

• Raytheon BBN Technologies "Graduate Research Intern", 05/2016 - 08/2016

  • Developed GENI Research Testbed tutorials and scripts that are used by universities across the US.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Networks), Unisinos University
• Exchange student Sungkyunkwan University

Teaching Experience

• Data Structures (Python) as T.A.
• Introduction to Programming (Java) as T.A.
• Freshman Seminar as Instructor (2015 and 2018)
• Security Engineering as T.A.

Research Experience

• Offloading Cellular Traffic from Next-Generation Cellular Base Stations
The soaring number of mobile devices, coupled with the increase in traffic, is posing a significant challenge to cellular networks. Network operators have to deploy more base stations to cope with the load and user's expectations; however, this approach increases complexity and it's hard to manage. We propose M2M communication that applies Information-Centric Networking (ICN) to fetch content from nearby peers prior to sending the request to the RAN. In this ongoing research, we expect to successfully fetch partial contents from the MANET, ultimately offloading base stations.
• Information-Centric Networking in Disconnected, Intermittent, and Low-Bandwidth (DIL) Environments
Conventional TCP/IP struggles as Mobile Ad hoc networks in DIL environments experience occasional disconnections and energy constraints. This work investigates ICN caching and forwarding strategies in MANET instead of commonly used protocols, such as OLSR and AODV. We developed a cross-layer approach that improves latency in ICN-MANET.
• Economics of a Future Internet with Choices
In future Internet architectures, customers will be able to choose network services with a finer granularity than the current lengthy and costly contracts. We envision that these interactions between the different actors will be done in marketplaces for network services. We developed an agent-based simulator to study the economic outcomes on a variety of scenarios, showing that monopolistic providers do not have incentive to innovate. In addition, innovative providers can thrive in a competitive market where race to the bottom is expected.

Weekend Fun Projects

• Slack Bot

  Boston City Services Slack Bot

• Android

  A couple of Android Apps (with screenshots)

• Crawling the Web

  Python Web Crawler (Fetching Boston's Craigslist apartment rentals under $2000 using Python requests and bs4 libraries)

• Social Media

  Facebook Messenger SimpleBot (Uses Flask and Ngrok)

  Getting Twitter's trending topics

• GENI Research Testbed

  Named-Data Networking Tutorial

  Delay-Tolerant Networking How-To

• VLSI

  Exploring Voltage Scaling Techniques in Embedded Processors Hardware Monitors

Publications

See Google Scholar for a complete and updated list.

2019

• Thiago Teixeira. Service Competition and Data-Centric Protocols for Internet Access. University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2019.
• Thiago Teixeira, Rajvardhan Deshmukh, and Michael Zink. Cross-Layer Assisted Forwarding Strategy for Opportunistic Communication. In WoWMoM. Washington, DC, June 2019.

2018

• Thiago Teixeira, Rajvardhan Deshmukh, and Michael Zink. Increasing Network Resiliency via Data-Centric Offloading. In EN4PPDR, a workshop of WiMOB. Cyprus, October 2018.

2017

• Andres Marentes, Jie-Kai Yang, Thiago Teixeira, and Tilman Wolf. A Marketplace for Interdomain Routing and Its Economic Outcomes. In ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop. Seoul, KOR, December 2017. [pdf]
• Thiago Teixeira, Andres Marentes, and Tilman Wolf. Economic Incentives in Virtualized Access Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC , Paris, FRA, May 2017. [pdf]

2016

• Thiago Teixeira, Andres Marentes, and Tilman Wolf. Enabling Internet Economics Research of Future Internet Architectures using GENI. In GENI NICE Workshop of CoNext 2016 . Irvine, CA, December 2016.
• Ahmed Abdelhadi, Felipe Rechia, Arvind Narayanan, Thiago Teixeira, Ricardo Lent, Driss Benhaddou, Hyunwoo Lee, and T Charles Clancy. Position Estimation of Robotic Mobile Nodes in Wireless Testbed using GENI. In Proc. IEEE Systems Conference SysCon , Orlando, FL, April 2016.
• Thiago Teixeira, and Michael Zink. Evaluating Information-Centric Networks in Disconnected, Intermittent, Low-Bandwidth Environments. In ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems ANCS, Santa Clara, CA, March 2016.
• Thiago Teixeira, and Syed Faraz Hasan. Assessing Electromagnetic Radiation in our Environment. In IEEE Potentials , March 2016.

2015

• Andres Marentes, Thiago Teixeira , and Tilman Wolf. Exploring Economic Dynamics in an Internet with Service Choices. In IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC , London, UK, June 2015.

2014

• Kekai Ku, Tilman Wolf, Thiago Teixeira , and Russel Tessier. System-Level Security for Network Processors with Hardware Monitors. In Proc. of the 51st Design Automation Conference DAC , San Francisco, CA, June 2014.

2012

• Sumana Das, Thiago Teixeira , and Syed Faraz Hasan. Research Issues related to Trilateration and Fingerprinting Methods: An Experimental Overview of Wi-Fi Positioning System. In IJRWS Wireless Advancements – Green Initiative , 2012.

Relevant Coursework

• Advanced Data Communication
• Cellular Networks
• Computer Algorithms
• Computer Networks
• High-Speed Broadband Networks
• Microwave Engineering
• Mobile Communications
• Probability and Random Process
• RF Circuits
• Security Engineering
• Statistical Inference and Random Processes
• Telephony Networks
• The Business Foundations Series for Scientists and Engineers
• Trustworthy Computing
• VLSI Design Principles

Awards

• Best Customer Focus project. Brightcove Hack Week 2020
• Grow with Google Developer Scholarship
• Science without Borders (undergraduate and graduate) - Brazilian Government