Dr R J Cintra
Current Position
Tenured Associate Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, since 2005.
Senior Member IEEE
Areas of Expertise
Low-complexity Algorithms
Approximation Theory
Signal & Image Processing
Probability
Academic Web Presence
Research Group
Contact
Phone: +55 81 2126-7428
Fax: +55 81 2126-8421
Mail Address: Departamento de Estatística, UFPE, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE, Brazil, Postal Code 50740-540
Office Location: A329 (Block A, 3rd floor, Room 29)
Editorial Boards
Subject Editor (Information and Communication), Electronics Letters
Associate Editor, Journal of Communication and Information Systems
Former Associate Editor, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Former Associate Editor, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (Springer)
Visiting Scholar
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
Département Informatique, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, INSA, Lyon, France
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron, Ohio, USA
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Florida, USA
Curriculum Vitae
CV in pdf format (in English)
Mini bio
R. J. Cintra (SM'2010) earned the doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil, and joined as a faculty member of the Centre for Natural and Exact Sciences, UFPE, in 2005.
He has held visiting scholar appointments at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA; the Département Informatique, INSA Lyon, France; the INRIA/IRISA Lab, University of Rennes 1, France; the University of Calgary, Canada; and the Florida International University, Miami, USA.
He was an associate editor for IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters; for IET Circuits, Devices & Systems; and for Springer Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. Currently he serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Communication and Information Systems; and as a subject editor for IET Electronics Letters.
His long-term topics of research include: approximation theory for discrete transforms, theory and methods for digital signal/image processing, computationally efficient statistical algorithms, and probabilistic methods.
Quotations
Jesus Christ - "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother." [Mark 10:19]
Jesus Christ - "Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?" [Luke, 12:57]
Thomas Aquinas - "It is written (Ex. 20:15): "Thou shalt not steal." ... If anyone consider what is meant by theft, he will find that it is sinful on two counts. First, because of its opposition to justice, which gives to each one what is his, so that for this reason theft is contrary to justice, through being a taking of what belongs to another. Secondly, because of the guile or fraud committed by the thief, by laying hands on another's property secretly and cunningly. Wherefore it is evident that every theft is a sin."
Plautus - "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
Hippocrates - "[The] art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult."
Vergilius - "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas."
Benjamin Franklin - "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Richard Feynman - "Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
John N. Mitchell - "The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
Thomas Paine - "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
Douglas Horton - "The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
Richard Hamming - "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra - "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."