Department of Engineering has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Lima, ULIMA (1997), a master’s degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Fluminense, UFF (2000), a master’s degree in Applied Computing and Automation from the Federal University of Fluminense, UFF (2001) and a doctorate in Computer Science from the Federal University of Fluminense, UFF (2006). He is currently a Full Professor at the Federal University of Fluminense at the Institute of Science and Technology in Rio das Ostras (UFF/RIC). He has experience in the area of Production Engineering, with emphasis on Operational Research and Computational Intelligence, working mainly on the following topics: Mathematical Modeling, Optimization, Artificial Intelligence and Simulation.