Published multiple papers, see personal resume or LinkedIn page for details. Member of the best teams in the ACM Programming Contest 98-99.
Research Experience
Over 15 years of experience as a software developer and researcher working with web-based distributed and client/server applications, including technologies such as web services, ontologies (Semantic Web OWL), C, C++, and Java languages on Linux and Windows. Held positions managing research laboratory operations. As a professor, has over 10 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) computer courses and producing online teaching material and tools for web-based courses.
Education
Ph.D. Thesis: 'Agents: A Distributed Client/Server System for Leaf Cell Generation', submitted to the University of Kent at Canterbury in the subject of Electronic Engineering for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Canterbury, United Kingdom, September 1995; M.Sc. Thesis: 'Quantico - Simulador para Circuitos Analógicos que Operam Segundo a Técnica de Quantização', submitted to the State University of Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil, January 1991.
Background
Research interests: Bioinformatics, Semantic Web and Distance Learning. Supervisor of Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. Experience in many academic research projects funded by Federal and State research agencies.
Miscellany
Born in Bahia, first language is Portuguese, also speaks English and Spanish. Member of IEEE since 1985, IEEE Computer Society since 1986, and ACM since 1994. Enjoys scuba diving (BSAC Novice I), cycling, and jogging. Likes to be involved with the Internet community and to hack in Lisp (Clojure), Groovy, and Java, and has been working with semantic systems. Loves working with artificial intelligence, biology, and cognitive science.