Curriculum Vitae

Academic trajectory, research activities, professional background, and verified qualifications.

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Education & Degrees

2008 – 2013
Ph.D. (Doutorado) in Electrical Engineering
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil & Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany
Thesis: Teoria da Informação Aplicada à Comunicação Falada (Information Theory Applied to Spoken Communication)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hani Camille Yehia
2004 – 2007
M.Sc. (Mestrado) in Electrical Engineering
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Dissertation: Banco de Filtros Wavelets com Fator de Escala Maior do que Dois (Wavelet Filter Banks with Scale Factor Greater than Two)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hani Camille Yehia
1999 – 2003
B.Sc. (Bacharelado) in Electrical Engineering
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Undergraduate scientific initiation projects in multimodal speech reproduction, digital video coding using orthonormal spatiotemporal functions, and numerical methods for differential equations.

Academic & Professional Experience

2011 – Present
Professor
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei (UFSJ), DTECH • Ouro Branco, MG
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Theory, Multimedia Signal Processing, Signals and Systems, Digital Design, Digital Document Design, and Programming for Engineering.
Editorial Position
Section Editor & Layout Editor (Diagramador)
Revista Texto Livre • Faculdade de Letras, UFMG
Section Editor (Editor de Seção) and Technical Team Layout Editor (Diagramador) for Texto Livre (ISSN 1983-3652, Qualis CAPES A1), dedicated to language, literature, technology, and open science.
2010 – 2011
Adjunct Professor
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UNI-BH)
Taught Digital Signal Processing.
2000 – Present
Researcher
CEFALA — Centro de Estudos da Fala, Acústica, Linguagem e Música
Research in speech perception, acoustic models, signal processing, and psychoacoustics.
2007 – 2008
Optimization & Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Ottimah Soluções
Industrial optimization algorithms and artificial intelligence systems.
2007
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Faculdade Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte
Course in Artificial Intelligence.
2005
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-MG)
Undergraduate lecture courses in Artificial Intelligence.
2003 – 2005
Software Developer
ATAN Sistemas de Automação
Development of industrial automation software and web-based applications.

Research Areas & Interests

Information & Communication Theory

Entropy measures, channel capacity, rate-distortion theory, coding schemes, source entropy of natural language, Zipfian distribution models.

Signal & Speech Processing

Linear predictive coding (LPC), subband & wavelet filter banks, spectral analysis, psychoacoustics, speech synthesis, auditory perception.

Multimedia & Compression

Lossless and lossy compression algorithms, image processing, JPEG, DCT, quantization, dithering techniques, perceptual watermarking.

Open Educational Resources

Interactive Jupyter Notebooks for education, mathematical storytelling, scientific outreach, Portuguese typesetting algorithms.

Languages & Technical Skills

Languages

  • Portuguese: Native
  • English: Fluent (TOEFL Score: 102/120; Hearven & King's School of English, UK)
  • German: Advanced (10 months of study & research at TU Dresden, Germany)

Scientific Computing & Programming

  • Scientific Software: GNU Octave (core & package contributor), MATLAB, Python (NumPy, SciPy, Jupyter)
  • Languages: C/C++, Java, Shell Script, Perl, PHP, SQL
  • Typesetting & Publishing: LaTeX, BibLaTeX (ABNT), TeX Hyphenation
  • Environments: Linux / Unix, Git, Apache

Scientific Events Organization & Editorial Work

  • Revista Texto Livre (UFMG • Qualis CAPES A1): Section Editor and Technical Team Layout Editor (Diagramador).
    Editorial Team Page ↗
  • EICEFALA 2021 (International Meeting on Speech Sciences): Co-organizer and Editor of the Proceedings Book (Advances in Speech and L2 Processing).
    Proceedings Book (GitHub) ↗
  • ISSP (International Seminar on Speech Production): Organization, editing, and proceedings publication.
  • SemEA (Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Áudio): Organization, editorial board, and proceedings publication.
  • SBRN (Brazilian Neural Networks Symposium): Editorial coordination and proceedings publication.
  • ABRALIN (Associação Brasileira de Linguística): Editorial coordination and proceedings publication.
  • Congresso Brasileiro de Hispanistas: Editorial coordination and proceedings publication.