Dr. Zachi holds a degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering from the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (1998), a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2001), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro January (2007). He is currently an Associate Professor level 4 in the Department of Control Systems and Automation Engineering and at the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering in the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET / RJ). He has experience in the area of programmable electronic systems and conducts scientific research in the areas of control and instrumentation, addressing mainly the following topics: control theory, linear, non-linear, and adaptive control, robotics and visual servoing, and applied electronic instrumentation.