Sara Paiva - Personal WebPage

SHORT BIO:


Sara Paiva is an Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, a PhD in Informatics Engineering from University of Vigo in 2011 and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oviedo, under advanced driving assistants. Her main line of research is smart inclusive mobility in smart cities. She is currently Vice-Chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee, Editor in Chief of EAI Endorsed Transaction on Smart Cities, Associate Editor in several IF journals such as MONET and WINET and member of the Editorial Board of the 5.2 IF International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society. She is General Co-Chair of the EAI International Convention on Smart Cities 360º since the 2020 edition and is part of the Organizing Committee of IEEE Smart Cities 2021. She acts as Scientific Evaluator of Individual Scientist Project Proposals for Fundamental and Applied Research for the Latvian Council of Science, she is Founding Fellow of AI Live Talks, in partnership with IEEE. She is also editor of books with Springer, CRC Press, Cambridge Scholar, and special issues in several impact factor journals. She has authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals and conferences and is a frequent reviewer of international journals and international conferences.
Most Recent:
====== IEEE Cooperation
Workshop co-organizer “Smart Cities through the lens of Human Rights: Technological and Ethical Dilemmas”. Angelo Ferraro, Jigyasa Sharma, Larissa Paredes Muse, Lee Davenport, Rosaldo Rossetti, Sara Paiva. 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and SocietyModerator of the roundtable's “Intelligent Public Transportation & Electromobility”, within the IEEE PES (Power Energy Society) day. 27th April 2021Member of the Organizing Committee of IEEE Smart Cities 2021editionTechnical Program Committee Member of the IEEE Smart Cities 2021editionVice-Chair IEEE Smart Cities Marketing Committee, since January 2021IEEE Smart Cities Education Committee (Member), since December 2020IEEE Smart Cities R&D Committee (Member), since December 2020Member of Editorial Team IEEE P2784 Smart City Planning and Technology Guide standard Project, since June 2020Reviewer from IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2) 2020

Session Chair of 2 Panels “Transportation and Mobility” on IEEE Smart Cities Conference 2020



====== Scientific contributions
Editor In Chief of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities (http://eudl.eu/journal/sc)
Area Editor of Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), Springer, IF 2.602 (2019)
Associate editor of EAI Wireless Networks (WINET), Springer, IF 2.659 (2019),
Editor of EAI/Springer books "Mobile Solutions and their Usefulness in Everyday Life", "Technological Trends in Improved Mobility of the Visually Impaired", "Applications in Ubiquitous Computing ", "Smart Technologies and Smart Cities: Advances and Recent Trends ", "Convergence of ICT and Smart Devices for Emerging Applications for Human Beings ", "IoT and ICT for Healthcare Applications" and IGI Books "Mobile applications and solutions for social inclusion" and "Modern software engineering methodologies for mobile and cloud environments".

====== Last Publications
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Magaña, V., Pañeda, X., Garcia, R., Paiva, S., Pozueco, L. (2021) Beside and behind the wheel: factors which influence driving stress and driving behavior. Sustainability, 13(9), 4775;. IF 2.576 Quartil 2
Paiva, S.; Pañeda, X.G.; Corcoba, V.; García, R.; Morán, P.; Pozueco, L.; Valdés, M.; del Camino, C.User Preferences in the Design of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3932. IF 2.576 Quartil 2 Paiva, S., Ahad, M.A.; Tripathi, G.; Feroz, N.; Casalino, G. Enabling Technologies for Urban Smart Mobility: Recent Trends, Opportunities and Challenges. Sensors 2021, 21, 2143. Impact Factor 3.275 – SJR Quartil 1
Ahad, M., Paiva, S., Tripathi, G., Haq, Z., Nafis, M., Feroz, N. (2021) Big Data and Modern Day Technologies in COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Avenues. EAI/Springer book Emerging Technologies for battling COVID-19- Applications and Innovations.
César Brito, Luís Pinto, Vítor Marinho, Sara Paiva, Pedro Pinto. (2021). A Review on Recent Advances in Implanted Medical Devices Security. 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. Jorge Neiva, Sara Paiva, Sérgio Lopes (2021) Monitoring the hydraulic stability of antifer blocks: an IoT-based approach. 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies. Pardo, C., Silva, G., Paiva, S. (2021) The role of Big Data in monitoring sustainability of tourism destinations: the case of North Portugal Region. 4th International Conference on Tourism Research (ICTR21), Portugal.


====== Projects
Manager of Business Digitalization Component and consultant of Alto Minho 4.0, P2020 Project – Start: April 2019, Budget: 280.000,00€ - POCI-02-0853-FEDER-041192.
Projet lead and consultant of project NexGenBS – Next Generation Business Solutions, Portugal 2020, Budget: 220.000.00€. Start: 2018-12-01; End: 2021-11-30 NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-037543, NÚCLEOS DE I&D EM COPROMOÇÃO, Programa Operacional Regional do Norte
Member of Project “Direccion cientifica y atividades de investigacion del proyeto SMEInst-GlobalBLED”, funded by H2020 Framework Programme, referencia H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017, that envolves the Oviedo University Foundation, the Oviedo University and the ADN Context-Aware Mobile Solutions, S.L. Budget: 45.000,00€, 2018-junho 2019.
Member of Project “SADA - Sistema evolutivo de apoyo a la conducción segura y eficiente basado en el análisis del contexto del vehículo y del conductor”, Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, do Ministerio De Economia, Industria Y Competitividad, Governo de Espanha, Budget: 214.000,0€, 2018-present time.
TV Coverage of some Social Projects Developed