I am currently on an unpaid leave of absence from UFPR.
I received the BS degree in computer science from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR, 1999), Curitiba, Brazil; MSc degree in electrical engeneering and computer science from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, 2013), Campinas, Brazil; and PhD degree from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (2007), Curitiba, Brazil. My PhD project was developed in a partnership between the Paediatrics and Informatics graduate programs under the supervision of Profa. Dra. Monica Lima and Profa. Dra. Olga Regina Pereira Bellon, and concerned the identification of newborns using digitally acquired foot and palm prints. It received the prize of the best PhD thesis (2008) from the brazilian Ministry of Health’s Prize of Incentive in Science and Technology for the Unified Health System.
After my bachelor I worked as C++ Software Developer for GfS Systemtechnik, Aachen, Germany (1999) and as a freelance programmer for the same company that was incorporated by National Instruments (until 2004). I acted as Lecturer for some Universities in Curitiba (2003-2005) and since 2008 I’m professor at the Department of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil, where I leaded the creation of the Bachelor in Biomedical Informatics course and was its first course coordinator (2010-2012). I also acted as head of department (2017-2018). In 2012 I spent a sabbatical year as postdoc at the Chair of System Simulation (LSS), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde, where I worked on fluid and particle simulation, and started our ongoing cooperation in the waLBerla framework.
My research interests in image processing gradually shifted towards GPGPU parallelization, high performance computing and code generation, but image processing continues to be one of the applications of interest. I also work on more applied projects that involve creating and maintaining GNU/Linux infrastructure and systems, as part of the C3SL group and sysadmin group of the Department’s computational infrastructure. Since 2009 I have a strong cooperation in this field with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schneider from the Computing Center of the University of Freiburg, Germany. Together we organized three DAAD Summer Schools (2011, 2014, 2019) aimed at graduate student.
I also dedicate some effort to promote the internationalization of our Department by means of student and professor exchange programs with German Universities. The main partners are the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) with a CAPES/DAAD Unibral project (2014-2017) and currently a DAAD ISAP project (2017-2020), the TH-Ingolstadt (AWARE project, 2016-2020), and companies like e-Solutions, Airbus, and Arculus.