He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba (1997), currently UFCG, obtained his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (2000), and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (2004). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bristol, UK from 02/2015 to 01/2016. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex, UK in March 2018. He was an adjunct professor at the Federal University of ABC, and is currently an associate professor at the Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Bahia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with an emphasis on Telecommunications Systems, Computer Networks, Computer Systems, and Optimization, acting mainly in the following subjects: telecommunications; optical networks; network planning and optimization.