Brief Bio
I am a Ph.D in Computer Sciences with over 17 years of IT Industry experience. I am currently working at IBM Research Brazil, acting as research leader in the Smarter Human Systems group.
My background mixes Academic, Business, and Technical experiences, including:
- Consulting and Managing the Development of large projects with proven operational success and quality.
- Research and development of innovative solutions in the areas of Mobile Services, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence.
- Business Development in IT industry, specially in the telecom segment.
- Writing of Project Proposals for both commercial and R&D engagements, providing support to both technical and business items.
- Software programming in Java, C++, and PERL.
Academic research interests
- Artificial Intelligence, specially in the area of simulations, including: tools for large-scale multi-agent simulations, simulation end-user behaviour in socio-technical systems, and simulations of multi-component systems in distributed computing.
- Distributed Computing, focusing on the area of Cloud Computing, interested in issues of Load Distribution, Green Computing, Security in Open Environments, and system simulation.
- Mobile Services, looking into issues of context-aware service delivery, application development and delivery, and simulation of system/end-user behaviour.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Sciences (2009): Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands in collaboration with the Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Supervised by: Prof. dr. John-Jules Meyer, Prof. dr. Liz Sonenberg, and Dr. Frank Dignum. Thesis: An Agent-Based Model for the Development of Intelligent Mobile Services (details here).
- M.Sc. in Computer Sciences (1997): Department of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Supervised by: Prof. dr. Carlos B. Westphall. Dissertation: Autonomous Agents for the Management of Computer Networks (in Portuguese).
- B.Sc. in Computer Sciences (1993): Department of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
