Marcelo is with the Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ETI) group at Cisco. He is leading innovative projects in the areas of data compliance, data geofencing, security and observability for distributed applications. Marcelo has more than 120 publications, including scientific papers, patent applications and books. Before joining Cisco, he was the head of the Advanced Network Architectures Research Lab at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain.