Cristina Videira Lopes

An Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Irvine, she received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University, in Boston. Prior to becoming a professor, Lopes was a Research Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). While there, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org.

More recently, she worked in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in communication mechanisms that were pervasive, secure, and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with. Lopes was a member of the ICSE 2012, ICSM 2012, and OOPSLA 2012 Conference Program Committees.

Among her most recent co-authored publications were: "Mote-based Underwater Sensor Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Guidelines," Telecommunication Systems Journal (Kluwer), March 2008, with R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O'Hare; "Adaptive Low Power Listening for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 6, Issue 8, pp. 988–1004, August 2007, with R. Jurdak and P. Baldi; and "Reliable Symbol Synchronization in Acoustic Sensor Networks," Proceedings of IEEE GlobeCom, Washington, D.C., 2007, with R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O'Hare.