RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Image indexing and retrieval, Retrieval by content, Big data, Multimedia and complex databases,
Image Mining, Feature extraction and selection, Indexing Techniques, Visual analytics.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. (1991), Univ. of São Paulo (USP), Physics Institute -Brazil, in Computational Physics.
• M.Sc. (1987), USP, Mathematics and Computer Institute-Brazil, in Computer Science.
• B.Sc. (1983), USP, Computer Science and Mathematics Institute, in Computer Science.
UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
2008 - Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, USP-Mathematics and
Computer Science Institute (ICMC). Initial appointment: May 08.
1998-2008 Visiting researcher, on leave at the School of Computer Science - Carnegie
Mellon University.
2001-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, USP. Initial appointment:
July 2001.
1991- 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. Initial appointment:
January 1991, tenured since July 1991.
1988- 1991 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, USP-Mathematics and Computer
Science Institute (ICMC). Initial appointment: July 1988.
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS
• Project: "Agrodatamine: Integrating Analysis of Climate Time Series and Remote Sensing
Images". Funded by Microsoft Research and FAPESP, 30 months, finished December
2013.
• Project: "RESCUER - Reliable and Smart Crowdsourcing Solution for Emergency and Crisis
Management", started in October 2013 for 30 months, funded by European Comunity and
CNPq (FP7-ICT-2013-EU-Brazil).
• CNPq Research Programs:
4 years track starting February 2014.
4 years track starting March 2000.
RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
• Deputy Provost for the Graduate Studies of the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil, since 2013.
• President of the Graduate Programs Committee of the Mathematics and Computer Science
Institute (ICMC) - USP , since May 2010.
• Chair of the Graduate Program in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics
(CCMC) - USP , from December 2006 to May 2010.