Academic Background

1999-2004

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Specialization in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), SP, Brazil. Thesis title: "Evolution, Symbiosis, and Hybridism Applied to the Engineering of Modular Intelligent Systems: Investigations into Neural Networks, Committee Machines, and Multiagent Systems" (in Portuguese). Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ivan L. M. Ricarte.

The members of the thesis defence committee were Professors Ivan L. M. Ricarte (president), Márcio L. A. Netto (internal member/FEEC-Unicamp), Fernando Von Zuben (internal member/FEEC-Unicamp), Akebo Yamakami (internal member/FEEC-Unicamp), André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho (invited member/ICMC-USP) and Carlos H. C. Ribeiro (invited member/Dept. of computation-ITA).

1996-1998

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Specialization in Automation, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), SP, Brazil. Dissertation title: "Characterization of a Distributed Management Service for Persistent Multimedia Objects" (in Portuguese). Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ivan L. M. Ricarte.

The members of the thesis defence committee were Professors Ivan L. M. Ricarte (president), Eleri Cardozo (internal member/FEEC-Unicamp) and Carlos André Ferraz (invited member/CIn-UFPE).

1992-1996

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), SP, Brazil.