Biography

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) - Department of Computing (DC). The student also performed part of his Ph.D. as a sandwich program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in the MS/MRI Research Group under the supervision of Prof. Roger Tam, Ph.D. M.Sc. in Computer Science at DC/UFSCar and bachelor's degree in Information Systems at the University of São Paulo (USP) - Computer and Mathematical Science Institute (ICMC). His main field of research is biomedical engineering, developing projects in the biomedical image processing related to stabilization and tracking of leukocytes in Intravital Microscopy videos; and segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis plaques in 3D images of Magnetic Resonance. In 2011 he served as a member of the academic office (SACIM) with the position of director of computing at USP. He has professional expertise in database area (SQL / Firebird-Oracle), software testing, help desk and programming languages C/C++, Java, Python, Matlab, and Delphi.