- Oct/95-Sep/99 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Artificial Intelligence) at Imperial College (IC), London, UK
- Supervisor: Prof. Igor Aleksander
- Title: Computability and Learnability in Sequential Weightless Neural Networks
- Mar/92-May/95 M.Sc. in Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil
- Supervisor: Prof. Teresa Ludermir
- Title: Computational Complexity of Learning in Weightless Neural Networks
- Mar/88-Dec/91 B.Sc. in Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil
- Since Sep/2012 Full professor (professeur des universités) in Computer Science at Université d’Orléans, membre of the LIFO EA 4022, Orléans, France
- Jan/12-Aug/12 Researcher at Imperial College, London, UK
- Nov/10-Dec/11 Visiting professor at the Centro de Informática (CIn), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil
- Apr/04-Oct/10 Associate professor (professor adjunto) at the DIMAp, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
- Oct/06-Sep/07 Researcher (sabbatical) at the Department of Computational Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Aug/02-Sep/03 Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brazil
- Oct/99-July/02 Visiting professor at the CIn, UFPE, Recife, Brazil
- h-index: 18, i10-index: 35, google scholar – November 4th, 2019 (google scholar profile)
- Publications: 4 editions of proceedings; 3 editions of special issue of international journals; 4 book chapters; 16 papers in international journals (10 classified in SJR Q1/Q2); 35 papers in proceedings of international conferences (24 ranked in CORE A); 14 papers in Brazilian conference proceedings; 2 softwares
- Principal investigator, in the past years, of five scientific projects (CNPq, CAPES, COFECUB), including an international project (France/Brazil)
- Member of the editorial board of the Revue Artificial Intelligence (RIA), since 2019
- Senior member of IEEE since 2011
- Participation as member of the program committee of international conferences: IJCAI (CORE A*), AAAI (CORE A*), IJCNN (CORE A), ECML/PKDD (CORE A)
- Head of the research team Contraintes et Apprentissage of the LIFO, Université d’Orléans, 2016-August 2019.
- President of the CRD27 (Comité de représentants disciplinaire de 27e section CNU), Université d’Orléans, since 2018
- Responsible of the Master CCI, Université d’Orléans, 2014-2015
- Co-chair of the Program Committee, with Maricel Kann (University of Maryland), of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2012), 2012
- Co-responsible of the post-graduation program (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, 2008-2010
- Co-responsible of the B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, 2004-2006
- Vice-coordinator of research, Centro de Informática (CIn), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil, 2001-2002
