Received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande doSul (Brazil) in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Oporto University (Portugal) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 2007. In 2009, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador (Brazil), as Associate Professor, and is currently member of the Electrical Engineering Post-graduation Program. Visiting Scholar at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Queensland University of Technology - QUT (Australia), in 2013. Visiting Scholar at Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano - Italy, in 2016. He is a reviewer for many journals including ASME and IEEE journals. His main research interests are in Robotic Systems, Computational Vision, and Process Control.