Assistant Professor at the Digital Metropolis Institute from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (2006), M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from State University of Campinas (2008) and doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Sussex (2013), UK. In 2018, became a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellow. His projects develop and explore computational intelligence tools in the context of neuroengineering, from the construction of brain-machine interfaces to the search of neural patterns in cognitive processes, with a focus on health applications and broad industry sectors.