Rute C. Sofia

Rute C. Sofia (PhD, Summa Cum Laude) is Industrial IoT Head at fortiss, the Free State of Bavaria’s research institute for software-intensive systems, and Invited Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona. Her research spans cognitive edge–cloud orchestration, agentic AI for IIoT, deterministic wireless networking and 6G, with 90+ publications and 8 patents. She coordinated CODECO. With 20+ years across industry, academia and entrepreneurship, including Siemens, Nokia Siemens (Senior Researcher 04-08), and co-founder of COPELABS and Senception.