Biography

I am a full-time professor at São Paulo University, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME), in Brazil. Graduated with a BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo (1990), a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo (1994), and a Ph.D. in Informatique et Systèmes - Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (1999).  

My areas of expertise include parallel and distributed computing, scheduling, and agile software development. Since 2023, I have been coordinating a scientific collaboration between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of São Paulo (USP) with the aim of proposing medium-term projects at the USP - CNRS center. 

At the beginning of 2024, I was elected Chair of the "Technical Community on Parallel Processing" (TCPP) of the IEEE Computer Society. I have published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and supervised over 40 masters of sciences, 9 Ph. Ds., and 4 postdocs. I am a senior member of ACM and IEEE.