Nisrine Bnouhanna — IoT Thing to Service Matching. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Alexander Pretschner (fortiss / Technical University of Munich, TUM). 2020–present
Rui Pascoal — Augmented Reality in Outdoor Sports. Advisor: Ana de Almeida (ISCTE). Co-advisor: Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). Doctoral Programme in Informatics, ISCTE (2017–2018 edition). Successfully concluded 2024/2025.
Francisco Melo Pereira — Inference of Individual Behavior in Urban Activities from Smartphones. NEMPS PhD Programme (2015/2016 edition). Advisor: Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). Programme participation concluded 2020/2021.
Liliana C. Inocêncio — Leveraging Large-Scale Sensing Platforms via Edge/Cloud Computing. NEMPS PhD Programme (2016/2017 edition). Advisor: Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). Programme participation concluded 2023/2024.
Daniel Maniglia Silva — Contextualization Relevancy in Internet of Things. NEMPS PhD Programme (2017/2018 edition). Advisor: Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). Programme participation concluded 2020/2021.
Helder Valente — IoT Unified Communications in Smart Cities. Advisor: Rute C. Sofia. NEMPS PhD Programme (2016/2017 edition). Thesis proposal stage; programme participation concluded 2018/2019.
Ben Schneider — Deterministic Networking. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Georg Carle (TUM). 2020–2022. Transitioned to industry 2022.
António de Oliveira Júnior — User-centric Routing. MAP-i Doctoral Programme (Universities of Porto, Aveiro, Minho). Advisors: Rute C. Sofia, António Costa (Universidade do Minho). 2008–2014. Successfully concluded 2014/2015.
Namusale Chama — Impact of Mobility on User-centric Routing. MAP-TELE Doctoral Programme (Universities of Porto, Aveiro, Minho). Advisors: Rute C. Sofia, Susana Sargento (Universidade de Aveiro). 2008–2014. Successfully concluded 2015/2016.
Firdose Saeik — Cooperative and Self-Organizing Aspects in Device-to-Device Communication. NEMPS PhD Programme (2014/2015 edition). Advisor: Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). Thesis proposal stage, Programme participation concluded 2015/1016.
Andrea Ribeiro — Social Mobility Modeling. MAP-i Doctoral Programme. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia, André Zúquete (Universidade de Aveiro). 2009–2014. Thesis proposal stage, Programme participation concluded 2013/2014.
Sai Geetha Mada — Dynamic Resource Unit Allocation in Time Sensitive Networking WLANs across a 5G Core. MSc. Advisors: R. C. Sofia (fortiss), Anna Arestova, Luigi Martino (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). 2024. Concluded (grade: 1.2 / 5).
Sugandh Mohan — Fine Time Measurement-based Time Synchronization for Multi-AP OFDMA Wireless Industrial Environments. MSc Forschungspraxis, Technical University of Munich. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Georg Carle (TUM). 2022. Concluded (grade: 1.1 / 5).
E. Karabulut — ML-based Data Classification and Data Aggregation on the Edge. MSc, Technical University of Munich. Advisors: Rute C. Sofia (fortiss), Jörg Ött (TUM). June 2022. Concluded (grade: 1.0 / 5).
Omar Aponte — Mobility Management Optimization via Inference of Roaming Behavior. MEISI, Universidade Lusófona. Advisor: Rute C. Sofia. 2019. Concluded (grade: 19 / 20).
J. Maurício — Aggregation of Wireless Resources. MERC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon. Advisors: Artur Arsénio (IST/NSN), Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). 2013. Concluded (grade: 15 / 20).
J. Mota — Combining Heterogeneous Access Networks with Ad-hoc Networks for Cost-effective Connectivity. MERC, Instituto Superior Técnico. Advisors: Artur Arsénio (IST/NSN), Rute C. Sofia (ULHT). 2009–2012. Concluded (grade: 17 / 20).
L. Carvalho — User-provided Networks: Relaying vs Routing. MSc Thesis, MIEEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP). Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, José Ruela. 2009. Concluded (grade: 18 / 20).
D. Jianglin — Adjusting Ethernet Principles to Large-Scale Networks. MSc Thesis, Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Jörg Eberspächer, C. Merkle. 2005. Concluded.
W. Paprowicz — Enhancing Ethernet Forwarding: An Analysis. MSc Thesis, Communications Engineering, University of Cracow, Poland. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Andrzej Pach. 2005. Concluded.
M. Rajyalakshmi — A Study on Current Networking Simulation Tools. International MSc in Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich. Supervisor: Rute C. Sofia. 2005. Concluded.
M. Popa — An Investigation of Real Internet Topologies and AS Relationships. MSc Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Universität der Bundeswehr München. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Burkhard Stiller. 2004. Concluded.
F. Brieler — Designing and Securing an Implementation of SHARK. MSc Thesis (Diplomarbeit), Universität der Bundeswehr München. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Burkhard Stiller. 2004. Concluded.
Yujie Ma, — Wireless AGV Control via CODECO for Flexible Factories. fortiss working student 2025-2026.
Kaikang Huang. Network probing in CODECO. M.Sc. student, Technical University of Munich - Research internship 2026 (Rute C. Sofia, Wolfgang Kellerer, TUM). fortiss working student 2025-2026.
Dalal Ali, Context-awareness integration into CODECO and energy-aware strategies. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student 2023-2025.
Hongyu Guo - Network monitoring via CODECO. MSc student Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student 2023.
Hongyu Zhu — Wireless AGV Control via CODECO for Flexible Factories. Research internship. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, J. Ott. July 2024 & fortiss working student 2023-2025.
Parth Anand — NDN-IIoT Demonstrator. fortiss IIoT Labs. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2023.
Erkan Karabulut — Semantic Matchmaking. H2020 EFPF Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2021–2022.
Sugandh Huthanally Mohan — Deterministic Wireless Time Synchronization. Industrial DetNetWiFi Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2020–2023.
Chitiphat Chongaroonngamsaeng — Deterministic Wireless Scheduling. Industrial DetNetWiFi Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2020–2022.
Devika Ajith — Multi-AP MAC-driven Coordination Algorithms. Industrial DetNetWiFi Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2021.
Jorge de Lima Tostes — Semantic Matchmaking. Mandatory MSc internship. EIGSI La Rochelle, France. fortiss internship. 2021.
Ömar Özdag — Deterministic Networking. Industrial DetNetWiFi Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student. 2021.
Kamal Arumugan — Deterministic Wireless Synchronization. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student.
Dushyant Dave — Dynamic Container Orchestration. C4AI Edge Project. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student.
Wen-Yu Chung — NDN-IIoT Demonstrator. fortiss IIoT Labs. MSc student, Technical University of Munich. fortiss working student.
M. Meinig — IPv6 Advanced Networking Scenarios I: IPv4–IPv6 Migration Testbed. Studienarbeit nr. 1002627. Universität der Bundeswehr München, Faculty of Informatics. March 2004. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Burkhard Stiller.
T. Beyer — IPv6 Advanced Networking Scenarios II: IPv6 Multimedia Services. Studienarbeit nr. 1002610. Universität der Bundeswehr München, Faculty of Informatics. March 2004. Supervisors: Rute C. Sofia, Burkhard Stiller.
Patrícia Simões — Hotspot Tracking through Cooperative Networking. Internship, University Lusófona (Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication). Supervisors: Inês Oliveira, Rute C. Sofia. 2013.
Ana Luz — A Visualization Platform: The Mood of University Lusófona. Internship, University Lusófona (Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication). Supervisors: Inês Oliveira, Rute C. Sofia. 2013.