I have a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Centro Universitário da FEI (1983), a Master's degree in Applied Computing from National Institute for Space Research (1992) and in Computer Science from University of Rochester (1994). I have a PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2002) . I worked as an Associate Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie up to December of 2020 and now I work as a Senior Researcher at the Computer Science Department of Federal University of MInas Gerais. I have experience in the following areas: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science.