Fabio Kon

Fabio Kon
Fabio Kon
Education	University of São Paulo, São Paulo State University, University of São Paulo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards	ACM Distinguished Member (2016) ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Informatics, computer science, smart city, software system, data science
Workplaces	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018–2019) ;
Thesis	Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems
Doctoral advisor	Roy H. Campbell
Doctoral students	Arlindo Flavio da Conceição, Francisco José da Silva e Silva, Raphael Yokoingawa de Camargo, José de Ribamar Braga Pinheiro, Jr., Helves Humberto Domingues, Claudia de Oliveira Melo, Paulo Roberto Miranda Meirelles, Higor Amario de Souza

Fabio Kon is a former director of the Open Source Initiative and a full professor of the department of computer science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the primary contact for the University of São Paulo FLOSS Competence Center.

Education

Kon studied computer science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and music at the São Paulo State University. He received his master degree in applied mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP, in 1994 with the dissertation Sistemas de Arquivos Distribuídos.

In 2000, Kon received his PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with the thesis Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems, advised by Ron Harold Campbell.

Career

Kon is Full Professor at IME-USP since 2011. Kon was a visiting professor at Technion, Israel in 2013 and at MIT in 2018.

Awards

2016: ACM Distinguished Member
2018: Fulbright Visiting Professor Fellowship.

Works

2004: InteGrade: object‐oriented Grid middleware leveraging the idle computing power of desktop machines.
2013: Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management.
2013: The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects..
2018: Software platforms for smart cities: Concepts, requirements, challenges, and a unified reference architecture.

References

↑ "Board - Annotated - Open Source Initiative". www.opensource.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
↑ "Team - CCSL". ccsl.ime.usp.br. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
↑ "Fabio Kon – PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO". 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
↑ Kon, Fabio (1994-11-08). Sistemas de Arquivos Distribuídos (Mestrado em Matemática Aplicada thesis) (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo. doi:10.11606/d.45.1994.tde-23052012-180225.
↑ Kon, Fabio (2000). Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems (text thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
↑ "Fabio Kon - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Archived from the original on 2023-10-28. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
↑ "Fabio Kon". IME-USP (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2025-07-08.
↑ Jim Ormond (November 30, 2016). "ACM Recognizes Distinguished Members for Computing Innovations that Transform Society: 2016 Members Selected for Individual Achievements that Expand Scientific Frontiers and Advance the Digital Age". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
↑ Kon, Fabio; Ferreira, Éderson Cássio; de Souza, Higor Amario; Duarte, Fábio; Santi, Paolo; Ratti, Carlo (2022-10-01). "Abstracting mobility flows from bike-sharing systems". Public Transport. 14 (3): 545–581. doi:10.1007/s12469-020-00259-5. ISSN 1613-7159. PMC 7961174. PMID 38624733.
↑ Goldchleger, Andrei; Kon, Fabio; Goldman, Alfredo; Finger, Marcelo; Bezerra, Germano Capistrano (2004-03-26). "InteGrade: object‐oriented Grid middleware leveraging the idle computing power of desktop machines". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 16 (5): 449–459. doi:10.1002/cpe.824. ISSN 1532-0626.
↑ de O. Melo, Claudia; S. Cruzes, Daniela; Kon, Fabio; Conradi, Reidar (February 2013). "Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management". Information and Software Technology. 55 (2): 412–427. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2012.09.004. ISSN 0950-5849.
↑ Santos, Carlos; Kuk, George; Kon, Fabio; Pearson, John (March 2013). "The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects". The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 22 (1): 26–45. doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2012.07.004. ISSN 0963-8687.
↑ Santana, Eduardo Felipe Zambom; Chaves, Ana Paula; Gerosa, Marco Aurelio; Kon, Fabio; Milojicic, Dejan S. (2017-11-22). "Software Platforms for Smart Cities". ACM Computing Surveys. 50 (6): 1–37. arXiv:1609.08089. doi:10.1145/3124391. ISSN 0360-0300.

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[1] "Board - Annotated - Open Source Initiative". www.opensource.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2018.

[2] "Team - CCSL". ccsl.ime.usp.br. Retrieved 25 September 2018.

[3] "Fabio Kon – PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO". 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2025-07-08.

[4] Kon, Fabio (1994-11-08). Sistemas de Arquivos Distribuídos (Mestrado em Matemática Aplicada thesis) (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo. doi:10.11606/d.45.1994.tde-23052012-180225.

[5] Kon, Fabio (2000). Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems (text thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

[6] "Fabio Kon - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Archived from the original on 2023-10-28. Retrieved 2025-07-08.

[7] "Fabio Kon". IME-USP (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2025-07-08.

[8] Jim Ormond (November 30, 2016). "ACM Recognizes Distinguished Members for Computing Innovations that Transform Society: 2016 Members Selected for Individual Achievements that Expand Scientific Frontiers and Advance the Digital Age". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

[9] Kon, Fabio; Ferreira, Éderson Cássio; de Souza, Higor Amario; Duarte, Fábio; Santi, Paolo; Ratti, Carlo (2022-10-01). "Abstracting mobility flows from bike-sharing systems". Public Transport. 14 (3): 545–581. doi:10.1007/s12469-020-00259-5. ISSN 1613-7159. PMC 7961174. PMID 38624733.

[10] Goldchleger, Andrei; Kon, Fabio; Goldman, Alfredo; Finger, Marcelo; Bezerra, Germano Capistrano (2004-03-26). "InteGrade: object‐oriented Grid middleware leveraging the idle computing power of desktop machines". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 16 (5): 449–459. doi:10.1002/cpe.824. ISSN 1532-0626.

[11] O. Melo, Claudia; S. Cruzes, Daniela; Kon, Fabio; Conradi, Reidar (February 2013). "Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management". Information and Software Technology. 55 (2): 412–427. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2012.09.004. ISSN 0950-5849.

[12] Santos, Carlos; Kuk, George; Kon, Fabio; Pearson, John (March 2013). "The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects". The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. 22 (1): 26–45. doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2012.07.004. ISSN 0963-8687.

[13] Santana, Eduardo Felipe Zambom; Chaves, Ana Paula; Gerosa, Marco Aurelio; Kon, Fabio; Milojicic, Dejan S. (2017-11-22). "Software Platforms for Smart Cities". ACM Computing Surveys. 50 (6): 1–37. arXiv:1609.08089. doi:10.1145/3124391. ISSN 0360-0300.